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An arch may want to tweak the mmap prot flags for an ELFexecutable's initial mappings. For example, arm64 is going to need to add PROT_BTI for executable pages in an ELF process whose executable is marked as using Branch Target Identification (an ARMv8.5-A control flow integrity feature). So that this can be done in a generic way, add a hook arch_elf_adjust_prot() to modify the prot flags as desired: arches can select CONFIG_HAVE_ELF_PROT and implement their own backend where necessary. By default, leave the prot flags unchanged. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.