On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, arm64 doesn't fixup the aliases, mostly because arm64 uses larger > page sizes which can't be broken down at runtime. CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING > does use 4K pages which could be adjusted at runtime. So yes, you are > right we would have physmap exposure on arm64 as well. Errr, so that means even modules and kernel code are writable via the arm64 physmap? That seems extraordinarily bad. :( -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security -- 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>
