Re: [PATCH v7 13/41] mm: Make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA

2023-03-02 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 02:29:29PM -0800, Rick Edgecombe wrote: > [0] > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0e29a2d0-08d8-bcd6-ff26-4bea0e403...@redhat.com/#t I guess that sub-thread about how you arrived at this "pass a VMA" decision should be in the Link tag. But that's for the committer, I'd say. Th

Re: [PATCH v7 13/41] mm: Make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA

2023-03-01 Thread David Hildenbrand
On 01.03.23 08:03, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 27/02/2023 à 23:29, Rick Edgecombe a écrit : The x86 Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) feature includes a new type of memory called shadow stack. This shadow stack memory has some unusual properties, which requires some core mm changes to f

Re: [PATCH v7 13/41] mm: Make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA

2023-03-01 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 27/02/2023 à 23:29, Rick Edgecombe a écrit : > The x86 Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) feature includes a new > type of memory called shadow stack. This shadow stack memory has some > unusual properties, which requires some core mm changes to function > properly. > > One of these un