From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755301AbbJHSLb (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:11:31 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f193.google.com ([209.85.212.193]:33298 "EHLO mail-wi0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754787AbbJHSLa (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:11:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:11:24 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Arjan van de Ven , luto@amacapital.net, peterz@infradead.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov, keescook@chromium.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, efault@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, brgerst@gmail.com, dvlasenk@redhat.com, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm: Warn on W^X mappings Message-ID: <20151008181124.GA18423@gmail.com> References: <1444064120-11450-1-git-send-email-sds@tycho.nsa.gov> <20151008145707.GA17513@nazgul.tnic> <56168508.7030704@linux.intel.com> <20151008153343.GA24052@nazgul.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151008153343.GA24052@nazgul.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 08:00:24AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > I would like the success message to be there. > > From an automated testing perspective (for the distro I work on for example), > > Is that particular success message important? I mean, if we started > issuing success messages for *everything*, we'll flood dmesg with bunch > of useless jibber-jabber. And we don't want that either. For security related checks it's important, yes - we had cases of security tests being broken by init code reordering: the security test was not ran at all, and nobody noticed! Thanks, Ingo