Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: remove the specific name of arm64

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon May 11 2020 - 06:45:55 EST


On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 02:28:19PM +0800, Zong Li wrote:
> UXN is the name of arm64 page-table descriptors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/Kconfig.debug | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
> index e19f94c6df90..b8cbe035247f 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -130,8 +130,6 @@ config DEBUG_WX
>
> This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving W+X
> mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
> - This check also includes UXN, which should be set on all kernel
> - mappings.
>
> Look for a message in dmesg output like this:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

The commit message needs help, but I'm assuming Andrew will just fold this
into the other patch so it doesn't matter.

Will