ARM: mm: allow text and rodata sections to be read-only
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 3 Apr 2014 20:29:50 +0000 (13:29 -0700)
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:38:54 +0000 (14:38 -0700)
This introduces CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA, making kernel text and rodata
read-only. Additionally, this splits rodata from text so that rodata can
also be NX, which may lead to wasted memory when aligning to SECTION_SIZE.
The read-only areas are made writable during ftrace updates and kexec.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

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