linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] Fix LKDTM for PPC64/IA64/PARISC v4

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Date:   Wed, 16 Feb 2022 23:22:33 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] Fix LKDTM for PPC64/IA64/PARISC v4

Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:40:55PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> PPC64/IA64/PARISC have function descriptors. LKDTM doesn't work
>> on those three architectures because LKDTM messes up function
>> descriptors with functions.
>> 
>> This series does some cleanup in the three architectures and
>> refactors function descriptors so that it can then easily use it
>> in a generic way in LKDTM.
>
> Thanks for doing this! It looks good to me. :)

How should we merge this series, it's a bit all over the map.

I could put it in a topic branch?

cheers