Re: [-mm patch] AVR32: Make PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC imply PROT_READ

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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:

> The AVR32 MMU has three protection bits for allowing unprivileged
> access, write access and execute access respectively. There is no
> way to deny read access while allowing write or execute access.
> 
> make-prot_write-imply-prot_read.patch in mm does basically the same
> thing for several other architectures. One important difference is
> that this patch makes PROT_EXEC imply PROT_READ as well, but it looks
> like this is the case for most other architectures already.
> 

makes sense to me.

Acked-by: Jason Baron <[email protected]>


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