Subject: Re: [patch] mark text section read-only
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: coywolf@sosdg.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>, ak@suse.de,
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:09:44 +0100
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On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:04 -0500, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:57:02AM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> > And we could also mark text section read-only and data/stack section
> > noexec if NX is supported. But I doubt the whole thing would really
> > help much. Kill the kernel thread? We can't. We only run into a panic.
> > Anyway I'd attach a quick patch to mark text section read only in the
> > next mail.
> > 
> > If it's ok, I'd add Kconfig support. Comments?
> 


change_page_attr() is only available on x86 and x86-64 so it needs to be
in arch/ somewhere...


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