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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: keescook@chromium.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, labbott@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] [RFC PATCH 1/4] Provide linux/set_memory.h
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:03:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5954C262.9000502@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498717781-29151-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au>

On 06/29/2017 08:29 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Currently code that wants to use set_memory_ro() etc, needs to include
> asm/set_memory.h, which doesn't exist on all arches. Some code knows
> it only builds on arches which have the header, other code guards the
> inclusion with an #ifdef, neither is ideal.
>
> So create linux/set_memory.h. This always exists, so users don't need
> an #ifdef just to include the header.
>
> When CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY=y it includes asm/set_memory.h,
> otherwise it provides empty non-failing implementations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Looks good to me, thanks!

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

I'm fine if Andrew or Kees picks up the bpf patch as well, I think
there shouldn't be any conflict with net-next on this one (and even
if so, then looks trivial to resolve).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-29  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-29  6:29 [RFC PATCH 1/4] Provide linux/set_memory.h Michael Ellerman
2017-06-29  6:29 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] PM / hibernate: Use linux/set_memory.h Michael Ellerman
2017-06-29  6:29 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] module: " Michael Ellerman
2017-06-29  6:29 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] bpf: " Michael Ellerman
2017-06-29  8:57   ` [kernel-hardening] " Daniel Borkmann
2017-06-29  9:03 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2017-06-29 16:11   ` [kernel-hardening] [RFC PATCH 1/4] Provide linux/set_memory.h Kees Cook
2017-06-30  1:43     ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-29 16:45 ` Laura Abbott

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