Re: prctl call wrongly succeeds on HPPA?

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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




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