[PATCH] [PATCH] arm64: Boot failure on m400 with new cont PTEs

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Tue Nov 24 00:04:33 PST 2015


On 23 November 2015 at 17:42, Jeremy Linton <jlinton at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/23/2015 10:37 AM, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>
>> Which permissions still need to be cleaned up from your perspective?
>
>
> IMHO, the vast majority of the linear map should not be
> executable/read/write, which is what happens today.
>

IMHO, this should not be hidden under DEBUG_RODATA (which some people
may mistake for a debug option, while others may assume it affects
rodata only) since the kernel stacks are executable without it.



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