Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755662AbXFUPrf (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:47:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752544AbXFUPrZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:47:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:37210 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751448AbXFUPrY (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:47:24 -0400 Message-ID: <467A9D67.8060504@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:46:47 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Ian McDonald , Andrew Morton , LKML , Miklos Szeredi , Ingo Molnar , "Darrick J. Wong" , Andi Kleen , Bj?rn Steinbrink , William Cohen , "S. P. Prasanna" , Antonino Daplas , Olaf Hering , Ville Syrj?l? , Jean Delvare , Rudolf Marek , Soeren Sonnenburg , Michal Piotrowski Subject: Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches References: <467543FA.60905@googlemail.com> <5640c7e00706201508g3c1fc40eq82a1db05c9156b5d@mail.gmail.com> <5640c7e00706201541g3ecaf8c5i524d8b464d8fcc2d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 623 Lines: 15 On 06/20/2007 07:04 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > As far as I know, the biggest reason to use DEBUG_RODATA is > > (a) Hey, it's a cheap way to check one thing > > (b) An added layer of security (which it's not that great for, but it > might make sense to make it more of a real security feature). > And as a security feature it's pretty useless if kprobes are allowed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/