On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Which kind of kills the whole thing. There's no way the idea of > > putting the LDT in a VMA is okay if it's RW. > > Sure there is. > > I really don't understand why you guys think it has to be RO. > > All it has to be is not _user_ accessible. And that's a requirement > regardless, because no way in hell should users be able to read the > damn thing. The user knows the LDT contents because he put it there and it can be read via modify_ldt(0, ) anyway. Or am I misunderstanding what you are trying to say? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
