Commit 54727e6e authored Nov 06, 2015 by Linus Torvalds

x86: don't make DEBUG_WX default to 'y' even with DEBUG_RODATA



It turns out that we still have issues with the EFI memory map that ends
up polluting our kernel page tables with writable executable pages.

That will get sorted out, but in the meantime let's not make the scary
complaint about them be on by default.  The code is useful for
developers, but not ready for end user testing yet.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent d1e41ff1

arch/x86/Kconfig.debug

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Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
		config DEBUG_WX
		bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
		depends on DEBUG_RODATA
		default y
		select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
		---help---
		Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.

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