lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Nov]   [4]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] x86/mm changes for v4.4
From
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The new CONFIG_DEBUG_WX=y warning is marked default-y if CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y is
> already eanbled, as a special exception, as these bugs are hard to notice and this
> check already found several live bugs.

So this seems to be not very useful.

...
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1068K (ffffffff8bcc0000 -
ffffffff8bdcb000)
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 12288k
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1944K (ffff88000b61a000 - ffff88000b800000)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1372K (ffff88000baa9000 - ffff88000bc00000)
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:225
note_page+0x5dc/0x780()
x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address
ffff88000005f000/0xffff88000005f000
...
x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, 165660 W+X pages found.
...

because it doesn't seem to give you any idea where to look for the
issue. Those 165660 pages come out to 647MB. Odd number.

Is this *supposed* to come out clean?

Linus


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-11-04 20:41    [W:0.156 / U:0.168 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site