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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6] x86: NX protection for kernel data
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:27:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091016132730.GA5731@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <817ecb6f0910160622m68486be7ifeb56b43921fc7c1@mail.gmail.com>


* Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

> > thanks - this one looks good now.
> >
> > Would be nice if you could send this with the patch that also deals 
> > with the first 1 MB.
> 
> I do plan to have that first megabyte fixed. But for now, let's keep 
> these patches separate, as there are many things that rely on that 1MB 
> area and I want to make sure they all still work properly with the 
> patch.

Well, if we are going to touch this area i'd like to see them addressed 
together.

The 1MB thing would obviously be a default-off Kconfig option so in that 
sense it should not break anything by default.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-16 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-15 23:25 [PATCH V6] x86: NX protection for kernel data Siarhei Liakh
2009-10-16  6:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-16 13:22   ` Siarhei Liakh
2009-10-16 13:27     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-01-31 23:17       ` Siarhei Liakh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-31 23:27 Siarhei Liakh
2010-02-01 21:40 ` James Morris

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