On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:05:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Arch maintainers: please send Acks (if you haven't already) for your > respective linker script changes; the intention is for this series to > land via -tip. > > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190926175602.33098-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx > v2: clean up commit messages, rename RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE (bp) > > > This series works to move the linker sections for NOTES and > EXCEPTION_TABLE into the RO_DATA area, where they belong on most > (all?) architectures. The problem being addressed was the discovery > by Rick Edgecombe that the exception table was accidentally marked > executable while he was developing his execute-only-memory series. When > permissions were flipped from readable-and-executable to only-executable, > the exception table became unreadable, causing things to explode rather > badly. :) Feel free to add Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> to every patch in this series which touches s390.
