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    mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings · d2aa1aca
    Kees Cook authored
    
    
    It may be useful to debug writes to the readonly sections of memory,
    so provide a cmdline "rodata=off" to allow for this. This can be
    expanded in the future to support "log" and "write" modes, but that
    will need to be architecture-specific.
    
    This also makes KDB software breakpoints more usable, as read-only
    mappings can now be disabled on any kernel.
    
    Suggested-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
    Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
    Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
    Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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