| Date | Wed, 8 Apr 2020 14:25:01 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: decruft the vmalloc API |
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:58:58PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > Peter noticed that with some dumb luck you can toast the kernel address > space with exported vmalloc symbols. > > I used this as an opportunity to decruft the vmalloc.c API and make it > much more systematic. This also removes any chance to create vmalloc > mappings outside the designated areas or using executable permissions > from modules. Besides that it removes more than 300 lines of code. >
Looks great, thanks for doing this!
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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