Re: [RFC v4 02/17] mm: ability to disable execute permission on a key at creation

[Balbir Singh]

On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 03:11 -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> Currently sys_pkey_create() provides the ability to disable read
> and write permission on the key, at  creation. powerpc  has  the
> hardware support to disable execute on a pkey as well.This patch
> enhances the interface to let disable execute  at  key  creation
> time. x86 does  not  allow  this.  Hence the next patch will add
> ability  in  x86  to  return  error  if  PKEY_DISABLE_EXECUTE is
> specified.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>