From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 10/11] mm: add a user_virt_to_phys symbol
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:36:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170911073616.GA23201@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jL8wRg2307wKkGf9ASZHTtYZMwPzn10100-Mfmx9p2=Fg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 08:44:22AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 11:36:08AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> >> We need someting like this for testing XPFO. Since it's architecture
> >> specific, putting it in the test code is slightly awkward, so let's make it
> >> an arch-specific symbol and export it for use in LKDTM.
> >
> > We really should not add an export for this.
> >
> > I think you'll want to just open code it in your test module.
>
> Isn't that going to be fragile? Why not an export?
It is a little fragile, but it is functionality not needed at all by
the kernel, so we should not add it to the kernel image and/or export
it.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20170907173609.22696-1-tycho@docker.com>
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 05/11] arm64/mm: Add support for XPFO Tycho Andersen
2017-09-08 7:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-08 17:24 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-14 10:41 ` Julien Grall
2017-09-14 11:29 ` Juergen Gross
2017-09-14 18:22 ` [kernel-hardening] " Mark Rutland
2017-09-18 21:27 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 07/11] arm64/mm, xpfo: temporarily map dcache regions Tycho Andersen
2017-09-14 18:25 ` Mark Rutland
2017-09-18 21:29 ` Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 08/11] arm64/mm: Add support for XPFO to swiotlb Tycho Andersen
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 09/11] arm64/mm: disable section/contiguous mappings if XPFO is enabled Tycho Andersen
2017-09-09 15:38 ` Laura Abbott
2017-09-07 17:36 ` [PATCH v6 10/11] mm: add a user_virt_to_phys symbol Tycho Andersen
2017-09-08 7:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-08 15:44 ` Kees Cook
2017-09-11 7:36 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-09-14 18:34 ` [kernel-hardening] " Mark Rutland
2017-09-18 20:56 ` Tycho Andersen
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