Commit 55181000 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds

x86: Disable KPROBES with DEBUG_RODATA for now

Right now Kprobes cannot write to the write protected kernel text when
DEBUG_RODATA is enabled. Disallow this in Kconfig for now.

Temporary fix for 2.6.22. In .23 add code to temporarily
unprotect it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9f1f79e6
......@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
config DEBUG_RODATA
bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on !KPROBES # temporary for 2.6.22
help
Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const
......
......@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
config DEBUG_RODATA
bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on !KPROBES # temporary for 2.6.22
help
Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const data.
......
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