Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Oct 2015 20:11:24 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm: Warn on W^X mappings |
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* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 08:00:24AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > I would like the success message to be there. > > From an automated testing perspective (for the distro I work on for example), > > Is that particular success message important? I mean, if we started > issuing success messages for *everything*, we'll flood dmesg with bunch > of useless jibber-jabber. And we don't want that either.
For security related checks it's important, yes - we had cases of security tests being broken by init code reordering: the security test was not ran at all, and nobody noticed!
Thanks,
Ingo
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