On zaterdag 3 november 2018 03:02:07 CET Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I was/am on the verge of upgrading that system from Stretch to Buster, > > which would upgrade both Xen (to 4.11) and the kernel (some which would > > include the fix). > > Would it be useful to first upgrade just the kernel (and leave Xen at 4.8) > > to verify it is indeed also fixed on my system? > > You should be able to do that if you want.
Upgraded just the kernel: with "4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u6 (2018-10-08) x86_64" # dmesg | grep -i w+x [ 37.316560] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, 4090 W+X pages found. with "4.18.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.18.10-2 (2018-11-02) x86_64" # dmesg | grep -i w+x [ 2.298828] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found. \o/
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