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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> | 2006-01-06 09:12:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-06 17:33:36 +0100 |
| commit | 67df197b1a07944c2e0e40ded3d4fd07d108e110 (patch) | |
| tree | b29534a27b2c18e64c6b3d4cdc149de8978e38ba /arch/x86_64/mm/init.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: generic x86-64 bugfix (diff) | |
| download | linux-67df197b1a07944c2e0e40ded3d4fd07d108e110.tar.xz linux-67df197b1a07944c2e0e40ded3d4fd07d108e110.zip | |
[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: x86-64 support
x86-64 specific parts to make the .rodata section read only
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/mm/init.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/mm/init.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c index c016dfe84784..1faae5fc1c01 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c @@ -498,6 +498,29 @@ void free_initmem(void) printk ("Freeing unused kernel memory: %luk freed\n", (__init_end - __init_begin) >> 10); } +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA + +extern char __start_rodata, __end_rodata; +void mark_rodata_ro(void) +{ + unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)&__start_rodata; + + for (; addr < (unsigned long)&__end_rodata; addr += PAGE_SIZE) + change_page_attr_addr(addr, 1, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); + + printk ("Write protecting the kernel read-only data: %luk\n", + (&__end_rodata - &__start_rodata) >> 10); + + /* + * change_page_attr_addr() requires a global_flush_tlb() call after it. + * We do this after the printk so that if something went wrong in the + * change, the printk gets out at least to give a better debug hint + * of who is the culprit. + */ + global_flush_tlb(); +} +#endif + #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { |