Re: [PATCH] PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC support for arm64.

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Sep 21 2020 - 07:00:33 EST


Hi Anthony,

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 03:25:23AM -0700, Anthony Steinhauser wrote:
> > As a heads up: I'm currently reworking most of this, and hope to post
> > something within the next two weeks.
>
> Sure. Let me know whether you want to implement the
> PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC support directly or whether this patch would be
> relevant even after your rework.

I posted a first cut at the rework on Friday:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2020-September/602709.html

so maybe you could take a look at implementing PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC
on top of that? If not, please let me know and I can look into it as I
think it should be reasonably straightforward.

Will