linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64/mm: A fix and a documentation bit for change_memory

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Message-ID: <176434515969.1525176.17062774390340624126.b4-ty@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:52:58 +0000
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: will@...nel.org, Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
Cc: ryan.roberts@....com, rppt@...nel.org, shijie@...amperecomputing.com,
	yang@...amperecomputing.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64/mm: A fix and a documentation bit for
 change_memory_common()

On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:57:14 +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
> The first patch is a fix to prevent suppression of error encountered during
> linear map alias permission change. This is needed because the rodata=on
> security measure requires us to proceed only if we first do the linear map
> alias protection change.
> 
> The second patch documents why linear map split failure during the vfreeing
> path isn't problematic.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/set_memory), thanks!

[1/2] arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/e5efd56fa157
[2/2] arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/0c2988aaa4d3

-- 
Catalin