From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
"S. P. Prasanna" <prasanna@in.ibm.com>,
Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
Ville Syrj?l? <syrjala@sci.fi>, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>,
Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>,
Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:46:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467A9D67.8060504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706201601100.3593@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-21 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-17 14:23 [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches Michal Piotrowski
2007-06-17 15:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-06-17 15:31 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-06-20 22:08 ` Ian McDonald
2007-06-20 22:31 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-20 22:38 ` Ian McDonald
2007-06-20 22:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-20 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-20 22:41 ` Ian McDonald
2007-06-20 22:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-20 23:02 ` Ian McDonald
2007-06-20 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 15:46 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-06-20 23:07 ` Dave Jones
2007-06-20 23:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-20 23:24 ` Dave Jones
2007-06-20 23:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 9:19 ` [PATCH] Alternative fix for kprobes&DEBUG_RODATA was " Andi Kleen
2007-06-21 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-20 23:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-20 23:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-21 5:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-21 7:11 ` S. P. Prasanna
2007-06-21 14:35 ` Stefan Richter
2007-06-21 14:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
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