linux-kernel - Re: 4.4-rc5: ugly warn on: 5 W+X pages found

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Message-ID: <20151214090726.GA6472@amd>
Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:07:26 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, sds@...ho.nsa.gov,
	luto@...capital.net, arjan@...ux.intel.com, brgerst@...il.com,
	dvlasenk@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	efault@....de, peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: 4.4-rc5: ugly warn on: 5 W+X pages found

On Mon 2015-12-14 09:58:03, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 09:04:03AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > Kernel complains:
> > 
> > And now, we are at -rc5, and kernel still complains...
> 
> You can disable CONFIG_DEBUG_WX in your .config:
> 
> 54727e6e950a ("x86: don't make DEBUG_WX default to 'y' even with DEBUG_RODATA")

I know. But either someone cares, and it should be fixes, or noone
cares, and the check should be removed.

Backtrace should be removed in any case, as it is useless.
									Pavel
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