Sam James <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I recently hit an issue with systemd-254 which tries to use the new > prctl(PR_SET_MDWE) for systemd's MemoryDenyWriteExecute functionality. > > On HPPA, we still need executable stacks, so this option doesn't work > and leads to a segfault on boot. > > Should this call be succeeeding on HPPA, or should we reject it for > now until we have things wired up? > > Reported to systemd at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/29775. Lennart has made clear (and I don't think I disagree) that he considers this squarely a kernel bug. > > thanks, > sam