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Re: [PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable

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Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 32-bit powerpc the ELF PLT sections of binaries (built with --bss-plt,
>> or with a toolchain which defaults to it) look like this:
...
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
>> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
>> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
>> CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> CC: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
>> CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
>> CC: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>> CC: linux-mm@kvack.org
>> CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
>> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> ---
>> Changes since v5:
>> * made do_brk_flags() error out if any bits other than VM_EXEC are set.
>>   (Kees Cook: "With this, I'd be happy to Ack.")
>>   See https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/661595/
>
> Excellent, thanks for the v6! Should this go via the ppc tree or the -mm tree?

-mm would be best, given the diffstat I think it's less likely to
 conflict if it goes via -mm.

cheers

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[PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> - 2016-10-03 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-10-04 00:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-10-04 02:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-10-04 19:00 +0200

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