APPLIED/cmnt: [v2][SRU Artful/Bionic][Patch 0/1] fix false positives in W+X checking

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Tue May 15 15:59:02 UTC 2018


On 05/15/18 16:36, Manoj Iyer wrote:
> Please consider this patch to Bionic, Artful. On
> ARM64 system from Cavium and Qualcomm we see random false positive
> warning messages wrt W+X checking. 
> "arm64/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address 0000000000a99000/0xa99000" 
> while booting.
> 
> This patch was cherry-picked cleanly on to bionic and artful, previously
> I had the same patch cherry-picked from linux-next and tested that patch
> on QTI and Cavium systems. I am resending this patch again as a
> cherry-pick from linus tree.
> 
> I will submit a backport of this patch for xenial shortly.
> 
> 
> 

Applied to artful/master-next and bionic/master-next branches also with
the ACK from Joseph Salisbury given on v1 (since the only change was the
upstream sha1 reference).

Thanks,
Kleber




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