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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.

  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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