Re: [PATCH 4/9] x86, pkeys: override pkey when moving away from PROT_EXEC

[Shakeel Butt]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/23/2018 12:15 PM, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>>> We had a check for PROT_READ/WRITE, but it did not work
>>> for PROT_NONE.  This entirely removes the PROT_* checks,
>>> which ensures that PROT_NONE now works.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Should there be a 'Fixes' tag? Also should this patch go to stable?
>
> There could be, but I'm to lazy to dig up the original commit.  Does it
> matter?
>

I think for stable 'Fixes' is usually preferable.