Re: [PATCH 2/4] MIPS: kvm: Use vm_get_page_prot to get protection bits
From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Mon Nov 16 2020 - 07:33:16 EST
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 03:34:14PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> Hi, Thomas,
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 7:13 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer
> <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > MIPS protection bits are setup during runtime so using defines like
> > PAGE_SHARED ignores this runtime changes. Using vm_get_page_prot
> > to get correct page protection fixes this.
> Is there some visible bugs if without this fix?
no exec isn't enabled for these mappings, if cpu supports it.
Thomas.
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