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Patch series "MDWE without inheritance", v4. Joey recently introduced a Memory-Deny-Write-Executable (MDWE) prctl which tags current with a flag that prevents pages that were previously not executable from becoming executable. This tag always gets inherited by children tasks. (it's in MMF_INIT_MASK) At Google, we've been using a somewhat similar downstream patch for a few years now. To make the adoption of this feature easier, we've had it support a mode in which the W^X flag does not propagate to children. For example, this is handy if a C process which wants W^X protection suspects it could start children processes that would use a JIT. I'd like to align our features with the upstream prctl. This series proposes a new NO_INHERIT flag to the MDWE prctl to make this kind of adoption easier. It sets a different flag in current that is not in MMF_INIT_MASK and which does not propagate. As part of looking into MDWE, I also fixed a couple of things in the MDWE test. The background for this was discussed in these threads: v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/66900d0ad42797a55259061f757beece@ispras.ru/ v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d7e3749c-a718-df94-92af-1cb0fecab772@redhat.com/ This patch (of 6): Fix tabs/spaces inconsistency in the mdwe test. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230828150858.393570-1-revest@chromium.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230828150858.393570-2-revest@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Ayush Jain <ayush.jain3@amd.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com> Cc: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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