On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 02:13:18PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:33:54AM +0900, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > > >> On Jan 4, 2020, at 8:03 PM, Justin Capella <justincapella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I'm rather ignorant about this topic but it would make sense to check prior to making executable from a security standpoint wouldn't it? (In support of the (set_memory_ro + set_memory_x) > > > > > > > Maybe, depends if it’s structured in a way that’s actually helpful from a security perspective. > > > > It doesn’t help that set_memory_x and friends are not optimized at all. These functions are very, very, very slow and adversely affect all CPUs. > > That was one of the reason it wasn't done in the first. > Also ftrace trampoline break w^x as well. Didn't I fix that?
