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Y. Srinivasan" , Sumit Semwal , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Wei Liu , Stephen Hemminger , x86@kernel.org, Laura Abbott , Nitin Gupta , Daniel Vetter , Haiyang Zhang , linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Robin Murphy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim , iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, Sakari Ailus , Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:58:58PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > Peter noticed that with some dumb luck you can toast the kernel address > space with exported vmalloc symbols. > > I used this as an opportunity to decruft the vmalloc.c API and make it > much more systematic. This also removes any chance to create vmalloc > mappings outside the designated areas or using executable permissions > from modules. Besides that it removes more than 300 lines of code. > Looks great, thanks for doing this! Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)