x86/elf: Disable automatic READ_IMPLIES_EXEC on 64-bit
With modern x86 64-bit environments, there should never be a need for automatic READ_IMPLIES_EXEC, as the architecture is intended to always be execute-bit aware (as in, the default memory protection should be NX unless a region explicitly requests to be executable). There were very old x86_64 systems that lacked the NX bit, but for those, the NX bit is, obviously, unenforceable, so these changes should have no impact on them. Suggested-by: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327064820.12602-4-keescook@chromium.org
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