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<updated>2022-08-31T15:18:19Z</updated>
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<title>arm64: fix rodata=full</title>
<updated>2022-08-31T15:18:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
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<published>2022-08-17T15:40:22Z</published>
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commit 2e8cff0a0eee87b27f0cf87ad8310eb41b5886ab upstream.

On arm64, "rodata=full" has been suppored (but not documented) since
commit:

  c55191e96caa9d78 ("arm64: mm: apply r/o permissions of VM areas to its linear alias as well")

As it's necessary to determine the rodata configuration early during
boot, arm64 has an early_param() handler for this, whereas init/main.c
has a __setup() handler which is run later.

Unfortunately, this split meant that since commit:

  f9a40b0890658330 ("init/main.c: return 1 from handled __setup() functions")

... passing "rodata=full" would result in a spurious warning from the
__setup() handler (though RO permissions would be configured
appropriately).

Further, "rodata=full" has been broken since commit:

  0d6ea3ac94ca77c5 ("lib/kstrtox.c: add "false"/"true" support to kstrtobool()")

... which caused strtobool() to parse "full" as false (in addition to
many other values not documented for the "rodata=" kernel parameter.

This patch fixes this breakage by:

* Moving the core parameter parser to an __early_param(), such that it
  is available early.

* Adding an (optional) arch hook which arm64 can use to parse "full".

* Updating the documentation to mention that "full" is valid for arm64.

* Having the core parameter parser handle "on" and "off" explicitly,
  such that any undocumented values (e.g. typos such as "ful") are
  reported as errors rather than being silently accepted.

Note that __setup() and early_param() have opposite conventions for
their return values, where __setup() uses 1 to indicate a parameter was
handled and early_param() uses 0 to indicate a parameter was handled.

Fixes: f9a40b089065 ("init/main.c: return 1 from handled __setup() functions")
Fixes: 0d6ea3ac94ca ("lib/kstrtox.c: add "false"/"true" support to kstrtobool()")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jagdish Gediya &lt;jvgediya@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220817154022.3974645-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>stack: Declare {randomize_,}kstack_offset to fix Sparse warnings</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T13:14:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>GONG, Ruiqi</name>
<email>gongruiqi1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-29T06:04:23Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 375561bd6195a31bf4c109732bd538cb97a941f4 ]

Fix the following Sparse warnings that got noticed when the PPC-dev
patchwork was checking another patch (see the link below):

init/main.c:862:1: warning: symbol 'randomize_kstack_offset' was not declared. Should it be static?
init/main.c:864:1: warning: symbol 'kstack_offset' was not declared. Should it be static?

Which in fact are triggered on all architectures that have
HAVE_ARCH_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET support (for instances x86, arm64
etc).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e7b0d68b-914d-7283-827c-101988923929@huawei.com/T/#m49b2d4490121445ce4bf7653500aba59eefcb67f
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Xiu Jianfeng &lt;xiujianfeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: GONG, Ruiqi &lt;gongruiqi1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Fixes: 39218ff4c625 ("stack: Optionally randomize kernel stack offset each syscall")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220629060423.2515693-1-gongruiqi1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>gcc-12: disable '-Warray-bounds' universally for now</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T17:11:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-09T17:11:12Z</published>
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In commit 8b202ee21839 ("s390: disable -Warray-bounds") the s390 people
disabled the '-Warray-bounds' warning for gcc-12, because the new logic
in gcc would cause warnings for their use of the S390_lowcore macro,
which accesses absolute pointers.

It turns out gcc-12 has many other issues in this area, so this takes
that s390 warning disable logic, and turns it into a kernel build config
entry instead.

Part of the intent is that we can make this all much more targeted, and
use this conflig flag to disable it in only particular configurations
that cause problems, with the s390 case as an example:

        select GCC12_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS

and we could do that for other configuration cases that cause issues.

Or we could possibly use the CONFIG_CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS thing in a more
targeted way, and disable the warning only for particular uses: again
the s390 case as an example:

  KBUILD_CFLAGS_DECOMPRESSOR += $(if $(CONFIG_CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS),-Wno-array-bounds)

but this ends up just doing it globally in the top-level Makefile, since
the current issues are spread fairly widely all over:

  KBUILD_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS) += -Wno-array-bounds

We'll try to limit this later, since the gcc-12 problems are rare enough
that *much* of the kernel can be built with it without disabling this
warning.

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-06-03T23:03:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-03T23:03:05Z</published>
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Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
  tasks.

  Commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
  all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
  kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
  kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
  struct kthread possible.

  Here, commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
  init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
  enough to be backportable.

  The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
  up and cause the code to make sense.

  In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
  I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
  detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
  PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
  flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
  was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
  thread.

  I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
  I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
  sitting in linux-next"

* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
  fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
  fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
  init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
  fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
  fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
  fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
  kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
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<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.19-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2022-05-31T21:10:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-31T21:10:54Z</published>
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for the Svpbmt extension, which allows memory attributes to
   be encoded in pages

 - Support for the Allwinner D1's implementation of page-based memory
   attributes

 - Support for running rv32 binaries on rv64 systems, via the compat
   subsystem

 - Support for kexec_file()

 - Support for the new generic ticket-based spinlocks, which allows us
   to also move to qrwlock. These should have already gone in through
   the asm-geneic tree as well

 - A handful of cleanups and fixes, include some larger ones around
   atomics and XIP

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.19-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (51 commits)
  RISC-V: Prepare dropping week attribute from arch_kexec_apply_relocations[_add]
  riscv: compat: Using seperated vdso_maps for compat_vdso_info
  RISC-V: Fix the XIP build
  RISC-V: Split out the XIP fixups into their own file
  RISC-V: ignore xipImage
  RISC-V: Avoid empty create_*_mapping definitions
  riscv: Don't output a bogus mmu-type on a no MMU kernel
  riscv: atomic: Add custom conditional atomic operation implementation
  riscv: atomic: Optimize dec_if_positive functions
  riscv: atomic: Cleanup unnecessary definition
  RISC-V: Load purgatory in kexec_file
  RISC-V: Add purgatory
  RISC-V: Support for kexec_file on panic
  RISC-V: Add kexec_file support
  RISC-V: use memcpy for kexec_file mode
  kexec_file: Fix kexec_file.c build error for riscv platform
  riscv: compat: Add COMPAT Kbuild skeletal support
  riscv: compat: ptrace: Add compat_arch_ptrace implement
  riscv: compat: signal: Add rt_frame implementation
  riscv: add memory-type errata for T-Head
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2022-05-29T17:31:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-29T17:31:36Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The majority of the changes are for fixes and clean ups.

  Notable changes:

   - Rework trace event triggers code to be easier to interact with.

   - Support for embedding bootconfig with the kernel (as suppose to
     having it embedded in initram). This is useful for embedded boards
     without initram disks.

   - Speed up boot by parallelizing the creation of tracefs files.

   - Allow absolute ring buffer timestamps handle timestamps that use
     more than 59 bits.

   - Added new tracing clock "TAI" (International Atomic Time)

   - Have weak functions show up in available_filter_function list as:
     __ftrace_invalid_address___&lt;invalid-offset&gt; instead of using the
     name of the function before it"

* tag 'trace-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (52 commits)
  ftrace: Add FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET to avoid adding weak function
  tracing: Fix comments for event_trigger_separate_filter()
  x86/traceponit: Fix comment about irq vector tracepoints
  x86,tracing: Remove unused headers
  ftrace: Clean up hash direct_functions on register failures
  tracing: Fix comments of create_filter()
  tracing: Disable kcov on trace_preemptirq.c
  tracing: Initialize integer variable to prevent garbage return value
  ftrace: Fix typo in comment
  ftrace: Remove return value of ftrace_arch_modify_*()
  tracing: Cleanup code by removing init "char *name"
  tracing: Change "char *" string form to "char []"
  tracing/timerlat: Do not wakeup the thread if the trace stops at the IRQ
  tracing/timerlat: Print stacktrace in the IRQ handler if needed
  tracing/timerlat: Notify IRQ new max latency only if stop tracing is set
  kprobes: Fix build errors with CONFIG_KRETPROBES=n
  tracing: Fix return value of trace_pid_write()
  tracing: Fix potential double free in create_var_ref()
  tracing: Use strim() to remove whitespace instead of doing it manually
  ftrace: Deal with error return code of the ftrace_process_locs() function
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-05-27T18:40:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-27T18:40:49Z</published>
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Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Two follow-on fixes for the post-5.19 series "Use pageblock_order for
   cma and alloc_contig_range alignment", from Zi Yan.

 - A series of z3fold cleanups and fixes from Miaohe Lin.

 - Some memcg selftests work from Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;

 - Some swap fixes and cleanups from Miaohe Lin

 - Several individual minor fixups

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (25 commits)
  mm/shmem.c: suppress shift warning
  mm: Kconfig: reorganize misplaced mm options
  mm: kasan: fix input of vmalloc_to_page()
  mm: fix is_pinnable_page against a cma page
  mm: filter out swapin error entry in shmem mapping
  mm/shmem: fix infinite loop when swap in shmem error at swapoff time
  mm/madvise: free hwpoison and swapin error entry in madvise_free_pte_range
  mm/swapfile: fix lost swap bits in unuse_pte()
  mm/swapfile: unuse_pte can map random data if swap read fails
  selftests: memcg: factor out common parts of memory.{low,min} tests
  selftests: memcg: remove protection from top level memcg
  selftests: memcg: adjust expected reclaim values of protected cgroups
  selftests: memcg: expect no low events in unprotected sibling
  selftests: memcg: fix compilation
  mm/z3fold: fix z3fold_page_migrate races with z3fold_map
  mm/z3fold: fix z3fold_reclaim_page races with z3fold_free
  mm/z3fold: always clear PAGE_CLAIMED under z3fold page lock
  mm/z3fold: put z3fold page back into unbuddied list when reclaim or migration fails
  revert "mm/z3fold.c: allow __GFP_HIGHMEM in z3fold_alloc"
  mm/z3fold: throw warning on failure of trylock_page in z3fold_alloc
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-05-27T18:22:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-27T18:22:03Z</published>
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Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The non-MM patch queue for this merge window.

  Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against
  various subsystems. Most notably some maintenance work in ocfs2
  and initramfs"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (65 commits)
  kcov: update pos before writing pc in trace function
  ocfs2: dlmfs: fix error handling of user_dlm_destroy_lock
  ocfs2: dlmfs: don't clear USER_LOCK_ATTACHED when destroying lock
  fs/ntfs: remove redundant variable idx
  fat: remove time truncations in vfat_create/vfat_mkdir
  fat: report creation time in statx
  fat: ignore ctime updates, and keep ctime identical to mtime in memory
  fat: split fat_truncate_time() into separate functions
  MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as a memcg reviewer
  proc/sysctl: make protected_* world readable
  ia64: mca: drop redundant spinlock initialization
  tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port-&gt;lock
  relay: remove redundant assignment to pointer buf
  fs/ntfs3: validate BOOT sectors_per_clusters
  lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list
  kernel/crash_core.c: remove redundant check of ck_cmdline
  ELF, uapi: fixup ELF_ST_TYPE definition
  ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree()
  ipc: update semtimedop() to use hrtimer
  ipc/sem: remove redundant assignments
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Kconfig: reorganize misplaced mm options</title>
<updated>2022-05-27T16:33:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-25T11:25:59Z</published>
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After commits 7b42f1041c98 ("mm: Kconfig: move swap and slab config
options to the MM section") and 519bcb797907 ("mm: Kconfig: group swap,
slab, hotplug and thp options into submenus") we now have nicely organized
mm related config options.  I have noticed some that were still misplaced,
so this moves them from various places into the new structure:

VM_EVENT_COUNTERS, COMPAT_BRK, MMAP_ALLOW_UNINITIALIZED to mm/Kconfig and
general MM section.

SLUB_STATS to mm/Kconfig and the slab submenu.

DEBUG_SLAB, SLUB_DEBUG, SLUB_DEBUG_ON to mm/Kconfig.debug and the Kernel
hacking / Memory Debugging submenu.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220525112559.1139-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2022-05-27T00:13:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-27T00:13:43Z</published>
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Pull modules updates from  Luis Chamberlain:

 - It was time to tidy up kernel/module.c and one way of starting with
   that effort was to split it up into files. At my request Aaron Tomlin
   spearheaded that effort with the goal to not introduce any functional
   at all during that endeavour. The penalty for the split is +1322
   bytes total, +112 bytes in data, +1210 bytes in text while bss is
   unchanged. One of the benefits of this other than helping make the
   code easier to read and review is summoning more help on review for
   changes with livepatching so kernel/module/livepatch.c is now pegged
   as maintained by the live patching folks.

   The before and after with just the move on a defconfig on x86-64:

     $ size kernel/module.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       38434    4540     104   43078    a846 kernel/module.o

     $ size -t kernel/module/*.o
        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       4785     120       0    4905    1329 kernel/module/kallsyms.o
      28577    4416     104   33097    8149 kernel/module/main.o
       1158       8       0    1166     48e kernel/module/procfs.o
        902     108       0    1010     3f2 kernel/module/strict_rwx.o
       3390       0       0    3390     d3e kernel/module/sysfs.o
        832       0       0     832     340 kernel/module/tree_lookup.o
      39644    4652     104   44400    ad70 (TOTALS)

 - Aaron added module unload taint tracking (MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING),
   to enable tracking unloaded modules which did taint the kernel.

 - Christophe Leroy added CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
   which lets architectures to request having modules data in vmalloc
   area instead of module area. There are three reasons why an
   architecture might want this:

    a) On some architectures (like book3s/32) it is not possible to
       protect against execution on a page basis. The exec stuff can be
       mapped by different arch segment sizes (on book3s/32 that is 256M
       segments). By default the module area is in an Exec segment while
       vmalloc area is in a NoExec segment. Using vmalloc lets you muck
       with module data as NoExec on those architectures whereas before
       you could not.

    b) By pushing more module data to vmalloc you also increase the
       probability of module text to remain within a closer distance
       from kernel core text and this reduces trampolines, this has been
       reported on arm first and powerpc folks are following that lead.

    c) Free'ing module_alloc() (Exec by default) area leaves this
       exposed as Exec by default, some architectures have some security
       enhancements to set this as NoExec on free, and splitting module
       data with text let's future generic special allocators be added
       to the kernel without having developers try to grok the tribal
       knowledge per arch. Work like Rick Edgecombe's permission vmalloc
       interface [0] becomes easier to address over time.

       [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201120202426.18009-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/#r

 - Masahiro Yamada's symbol search enhancements

* tag 'modules-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (33 commits)
  module: merge check_exported_symbol() into find_exported_symbol_in_section()
  module: do not binary-search in __ksymtab_gpl if fsa-&gt;gplok is false
  module: do not pass opaque pointer for symbol search
  module: show disallowed symbol name for inherit_taint()
  module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access
  module: Introduce module unload taint tracking
  module: Move module_assert_mutex_or_preempt() to internal.h
  module: Make module_flags_taint() accept a module's taints bitmap and usable outside core code
  module.h: simplify MODULE_IMPORT_NS
  powerpc: Select ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC on book3s/32 and 8xx
  module: Remove module_addr_min and module_addr_max
  module: Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
  module: Introduce data_layout
  module: Prepare for handling several RB trees
  module: Always have struct mod_tree_root
  module: Rename debug_align() as strict_align()
  module: Rework layout alignment to avoid BUG_ON()s
  module: Move module_enable_x() and frob_text() in strict_rwx.c
  module: Make module_enable_x() independent of CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
  module: Move version support into a separate file
  ...
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