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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V10] RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modules
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:06:49 -0800
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Cc: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

On 02/01/2010 07:59 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:09:53 am Siarhei Liakh wrote:
>> This patch is a logical extension of the protection provided by
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA to LKMs. The protection is provided by splitting
>> module_core and module_init into three logical parts each and setting
>> appropriate page access permissions for each individual section:
>>
>>   1. Code: RO+X
>>   2. RO data: RO+NX
>>   3. RW data: RW+NX
>
> Thanks, applied!

I also applied this to the -tip tree... do you prefer to carry it or 
should I leave it as is?

	-hpa