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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" 
	<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] provide check for ro_after_init memory sections
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:12:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170407151249.b1d45218ad2f71bdc2c8f992@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJ49PZx9T=hTNcFK8sjxLCdp_KBpiFzKLCt1jwj2Q7+3Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 14:53:23 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> > Eddie Kovsky (2):
> >   module: verify address is read-only
> >   extable: verify address is read-only
> >
> >  include/linux/kernel.h |  2 ++
> >  include/linux/module.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  kernel/extable.c       | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kernel/module.c        | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 96 insertions(+)
> 
> Andrew, do you have these in your mailbox (it went to lkml), or should
> I resend them directly to you? Since they depend on the
> __start_ro_after_init naming fixes in -mm, it seemed like it'd be best
> to carry these two patches there. If so, please consider them both:
> 
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 
> (And, from the thread on the module patch, Jessica has Acked that one too.)

Well I grabbed them, but the patches don't actually do anything - they
add interfaces with no users.  What's the plan here?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-07 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-06  3:35 [PATCH v5 0/2] provide check for ro_after_init memory sections Eddie Kovsky
2017-04-06  3:35 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] module: verify address is read-only Eddie Kovsky
2017-04-07  1:58   ` Jessica Yu
2017-04-07 20:46     ` Kees Cook
2017-04-06  3:35 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] extable: " Eddie Kovsky
2017-04-06 17:20   ` kbuild test robot
2017-04-06 17:41   ` kbuild test robot
2017-04-07 19:29     ` Eddie Kovsky
2017-04-07 20:45       ` Kees Cook
2017-04-07 21:53 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] provide check for ro_after_init memory sections Kees Cook
2017-04-07 22:12   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2017-04-07 22:15     ` Kees Cook
2017-04-07 22:23       ` Andrew Morton
2017-04-07 22:47         ` Kees Cook

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