linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: add check_wx_pages debugfs for CHECK

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Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:26:56 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Phong Tran <tranmanphong@...il.com>, steve.capper@....com,
        steven.price@....com, keescook@...omium.org, greg@...ah.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alexios.zavras@...el.com,
        broonie@...nel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: add check_wx_pages debugfs for CHECK_WX

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:35:27PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:35:58AM +0700, Phong Tran wrote:
> > follow the suggestion from
> > https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/35
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@...il.com>
> > ---
> > Change since v1:
> > - Update the Kconfig help text
> > - Don't check the return value of debugfs_create_file()
> > - Tested on QEMU aarch64
> 
> As on v1, I think that this should be generic across all architectures
> with CONFIG_DEBUG_WX. Adding this only on arm64 under
> CONFIG_PTDUMP_DEBUGFS (which does not generally imply a WX check)
> doesn't seem right.
> 
> Maybe we need a new ARCH_HAS_CHECK_WX config to make that simpler, but
> that seems simple to me.

Agreed. When I asked about respinning, I assumed this would be done in
generic code as you requested on the first version. Phong -- do you think
you can take a look at that, please?

> Thanks,
> Marm.

Wow, employee of the month!

Will