Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2018-05-10

Re: [PATCH] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_RO for architectures

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2018-05-09 01:39:35
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 01:04:38AM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 08:18:10PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
quoted
ia64: Add PAGE_KERNEL_RO and PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC

The rest of the kernel was falling back to simple PAGE_KERNEL pages; using
PAGE_KERNEL_RO and PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC provide better protection against
unintended writes.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <redacted>
Nice, should I queue this into my series as well?
A little reluctant to queue it without anyone having tested it.  Heck,
I didn't even check it compiled ;-)

We used to just break architectures and let them fix it up for this kind
of thing.  That's not really acceptable nowadays, but I don't know how
we get arch maintainers to fix up their ports now.
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