linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Added ability to vmalloc executable memory

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Date:   Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:41:08 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Xander Moerkerken <xandermoerkerken@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Xander Moerkerken <xander.moerkerken@...il.com>,
        Xander Moerkerken <xander.moerkerken@...on.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added ability to vmalloc executable memory

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 02:10:52PM +0100, Xander Moerkerken wrote:
> From: Xander Moerkerken <xander.moerkerken@...il.com>
> 
> Since release 5.8-rc1 the pgprot got removed from __vmalloc
> because the only usage was PAGE_KERNEL as argument.
> However, this removes the ability to input other arguments
> such as 'PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC', which can be used to allocate
> memory in which you can execute.

.. which is very much intentional.