Re: [syzbot] WARNING in __change_page_attr_set_clr

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Sep 26 2022 - 04:25:49 EST


On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 05:10:19PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:

> Peter, I remember an earlier version of your patch having some various
> enforcement modes. Since the strict enforcement has actually broken a
> few things, should we resurrect the nicer soft detection mode? Or,
> maybe make the soft one the only mode for now?

Well, I think we'll have to disable the whole thing for i386, but I'm
sincerely hoping this is the only one we'll hit on x86_64 -- I did spend
some effort fixing W^X issues a while back.