From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:20:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] Fix LKDTM for PPC64/IA64/PARISC v4 Message-Id: <202202160818.7C3862B@keescook> List-Id: References: <202202150807.D584917D34@keescook> <87y22bm25y.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> In-Reply-To: <87y22bm25y.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Ellerman Cc: Christophe Leroy , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Andrew Morton , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:22:33PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Kees Cook writes: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:40:55PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote: > >> PPC64/IA64/PARISC have function descriptors. LKDTM doesn't work > >> on those three architectures because LKDTM messes up function > >> descriptors with functions. > >> > >> This series does some cleanup in the three architectures and > >> refactors function descriptors so that it can then easily use it > >> in a generic way in LKDTM. > > > > Thanks for doing this! It looks good to me. :) > > How should we merge this series, it's a bit all over the map. > > I could put it in a topic branch? That's fine by me -- I had assumed it'd go via the ppc tree. But if you'd rather I take it as a topic branch I can do that too. -- Kees Cook