Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: vmalloc: export __vmalloc_node_range

Matthew Wilcox
2024-07-19T12:42:44Z

On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 07:58:40AM -0400, Mary Strodl wrote:
> Maybe some of the stuff the driver does right now could be moved into
> vmalloc? In other words, we could provide a different function that
> allocates an executable page, copies memory into it, then marks it
> read-only. Would that do better to alleviate concerns?

No. We are not running arbitrary x86 code. That is a security
nightmare.