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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 V13] RO/NX protection for loadable kernel
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 10:05 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:45:42 am Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > This patch breaks function tracer:
> ...
> > Here we set the text read only before we call the notifiers. The
> > function tracer changes the calls to mcount into nops via a notifier
> > call so this must be done after the module notifiers.
> 
> That seems fine.
> 
> I note that both before and after this patch we potentially execute code
> in the module (via parse_args) before we set it ro & nx.  But fixing this
> last bit of coverage is probably not worth the pain...

Rusty, can I take this as an "Acked-by"?

Thanks,

-- Steve


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