Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 8 May 2018 18:39:35 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_RO for architectures |
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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: > > 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 <mawilcox@microsoft.com> > > 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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