From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:28:30 +0200 From: Heiko Carstens Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Refactor EXCEPTION_TABLE and NOTES References: <20191011000609.29728-1-keescook@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20191011000609.29728-1-keescook@chromium.org> Message-Id: <20191016082830.GC4267@osiris> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Kees Cook Cc: Borislav Petkov , Rick Edgecombe , Dave Hansen , Andy Lutomirski , Arnd Bergmann , Michael Ellerman , Will Deacon , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org, Yoshinori Sato , Michal Simek , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:05:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Arch maintainers: please send Acks (if you haven't already) for your > respective linker script changes; the intention is for this series to > land via -tip. > > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190926175602.33098-1-keescook@chromium.org > v2: clean up commit messages, rename RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE (bp) > > > This series works to move the linker sections for NOTES and > EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most > (all?) architectures. The problem being addressed was the discovery > by Rick Edgecombe that the exception table was accidentally marked > executable while he was developing his execute-only-memory series. When > permissions were flipped from readable-and-executable to only-executable, > the exception table became unreadable, causing things to explode rather > badly. :) Feel free to add Acked-by: Heiko Carstens to every patch in this series which touches s390.