From 6036f373ea03687d355634fa70fb04baa95ab75e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:35:54 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86, cpu: Only CPU features determine NX capabilities

Fix the NX feature boot warning when NX is missing to correctly
reflect that BIOSes cannot disable NX now.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289414154-7829-5-git-send-email-kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c b/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c
index a3250aa34086..410531d3c292 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ void __init x86_report_nx(void)
 {
 	if (!cpu_has_nx) {
 		printk(KERN_NOTICE "Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection "
-		       "missing in CPU or disabled in BIOS!\n");
+		       "missing in CPU!\n");
 	} else {
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE)
 		if (disable_nx) {
-- 
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