linux-kernel - Re: [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploit mitigations

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Message-ID: <20130826195632.GG10783@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:56:32 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploit mitigations

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:51:59PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 7/30/2013 12:05 PM, Kees Cook wrote:

> >- RO and W^X kernel page table protections (similar to x86's
> >DEBUG_RODATA and DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX; it's not clear to me how much
> >LPAE and PXN is already handling this, if at all)

> We've had support for RO/NX on our tree for a while. I'm interested
> in attending the summit to share what we've done and to see how much
> of it could be mainlined.

Is that related to the code that Google have in their tree?

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