On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:10:56 -0700 > Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Has there been any more progress on this patch over-all? > > > > > > No progress. > > > > Al, Andrew, anyone? Thoughts on this? > > (First email is https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/14/448) > > Wasn't cc'ed, missed it. > > The patch looks straightforward enough. Have the maintainers of the > runtime linker (I guess that's glibc) provided any feedback on the > proposal? It looks reasonable to me too. I checked through VM_MAYflag handling and don't expect surprises (a few places already turn off VM_MAYWRITE in much the same way that this does, I hadn't realized). I'm disappointed to find that our mmap() is lax about checking its PROT and MAP args, so old kernels will accept PROT_FINAL but do nothing with it. Luckily mprotect() is stricter, so that can be used to check for whether it's supported. The patch does need to be slightly extended though: alpha, mips, parisc and xtensa have their own include/asm/mman.h, which does not include asm-generic/mman-common.h at all. Hugh -- 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>