Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] Sysctl: SROP Mitigation: Add Sysctl argument to disable SROP.

From: Scotty Bauer
Date: Tue Mar 29 2016 - 16:46:27 EST





On 03/29/2016 01:59 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 01:53:26PM -0600, Scott Bauer wrote:
>> This patch adds a sysctl argument to disable SROP protection.
>
> Sysctl needs to be documented in Documentation/sysctl/
>
> Also negated sysctl is weird, normally they are positive (enable-xxx)
>

Sure, I can change it. This may be a dumb question: I want SROP to be enabled by default, and thus the new
enable-xxx will be initialized to 1, that's fine, right?