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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Xander Moerkerken <xandermoerkerken@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Xander Moerkerken <xander.moerkerken@gmail.com>,
	Xander Moerkerken <xander.moerkerken@omron.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added ability to vmalloc executable memory
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:41:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5bpJHQJZIhTMbPU@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221209131052.64235-1-xander.moerkerken@omron.com>

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 02:10:52PM +0100, Xander Moerkerken wrote:
> From: Xander Moerkerken <xander.moerkerken@gmail.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.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-12  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-09 13:10 Xander Moerkerken
2022-12-09 13:17 ` Mark Rutland
2022-12-09 13:38   ` Xander
2022-12-09 13:46     ` Christophe Leroy
2022-12-09 13:51       ` Xander
2022-12-09 14:17       ` Mark Rutland
2022-12-09 14:18 ` kernel test robot
2022-12-09 16:10 ` kernel test robot
2022-12-09 19:01 ` kernel test robot
2022-12-12  8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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