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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: 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>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modules
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:29:29 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909220929.32301.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <817ecb6f0909101950v2fc6dc6u5cbc40cd9a9dde77@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:20:47 pm Siarhei Liakh wrote:
> +/*
> + * LKM RO/NX protection: protect module's text/ro-data
> + * from modification and any data from execution.
> + */
> +static void set_section_ro_nx(void *base,
> +			unsigned long text_size,
> +			unsigned long ro_size,
> +			unsigned long total_size)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86

This is usually considered a bad idea.  Make a new config option,
CONFIG_HAVE_SET_MEMORY_PROTECTION, select it in arch/x86/Kconfig.
Then wrap the entire functions in one #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_....
and put empty versions in the #else.

Thanks,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-21 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11  2:50 [PATCH v6] RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modules Siarhei Liakh
2009-09-21 21:40 ` Dave Jones
2009-09-22 15:49   ` Siarhei Liakh
2009-10-05 11:57     ` Siarhei Liakh
2009-09-21 23:59 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-09-22 15:50   ` Siarhei Liakh

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