insecure W+X mappings on HP DL365 G5

[Meelis Roos]

This HP DL365 G5 is the second old server where I see massive W+X mapped pages.

Is it some BIOS defect?

[    0.714956] x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address 0xffff8ed980000000
[    0.715101] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:266 note_page+0x4c7/0x780
[    0.715298] Modules linked in:
[    0.715421] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.19.0-11807-g310c7585e830 #9
[    0.715612] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL365 G5   , BIOS A10 05/02/2011
[    0.715741] RIP: 0010:note_page+0x4c7/0x780
[    0.715864] Code: fd 01 0f 87 1a 09 00 00 41 83 e5 01 0f 85 3f fc ff ff 49 8b 74 24 18 48 c7 c7 20 72 f2 bc c6 05 13 7f e9 00 01 e8 8a bf 00 00 <0f> 0b e9 20 fc ff ff 45 84 ed 0f 85 2b 08 00 00 4d 85 ff 0f 85 91
[    0.716141] RSP: 0018:ffffb262c0c5be10 EFLAGS: 00010282
[    0.716265] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000161 RCX: ffffffffbd06b778
[    0.716393] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: ffffffffbd4a972c
[    0.716511] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000000002bb R09: 00000000bd4eb701
[    0.716638] R10: ffff8ed9800bc240 R11: 0000000000032084 R12: ffffb262c0c5bec0
[    0.716775] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000000
[    0.716903] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8edaaba00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[    0.717085] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    0.717208] CR2: ffffb262c0e24000 CR3: 000000009e60a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[    0.717343] Call Trace:
[    0.717470]  ? vprintk_emit+0x18a/0x1e0
[    0.717592]  ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core+0x352/0x410
[    0.717720]  ? rest_init+0x1/0xcc
[    0.717839]  kernel_init+0x39/0x114
[    0.717960]  ? rest_init+0xcc/0xcc
[    0.718085]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40
[    0.718207] ---[ end trace 34c16f2bb7a914e2 ]---
[    0.744838] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, 2182367 W+X pages found.

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Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>