From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Use strtobool for noexec parsing
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 14:19:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yh984FR4fd/cSlaS@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yh9ffhD3809qieua@nazgul.tnic>
* Borislav Petkov (bp@alien8.de) wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 08:13:56PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > Use strtobool to parse the 'noexec' parameter rather than open coding
> > it.
> > 'disable_nx' is changed to a bool and flipped to 'enable_nx'
> > so it's meaning follows the command line option.
> >
> > There's no change in behaviour for noexec=on/off.
> > noexec=junk will now warn
> > strtobool allows 0/1 and y/n (etc) as well as the on/off.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c | 16 +++++-----------
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220127115626.14179-6-bp@alien8.de
Oh well; good.
Thanks for the pointer.
Dave
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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2022-02-27 20:13 [PATCH] x86/mm: Use strtobool for noexec parsing Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2022-03-02 12:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-03-02 14:19 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
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