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Message-ID: <565606C1.8080507@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:06:41 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
CC: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>,
        "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>, Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] introduce post-init read-only
 memory

On 11/25/2015 10:54 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>
>> We should not wait for compile-time support, that doesn't make any
>> sense.  What would be useful would be a way to override this on the
>> command line -- that way, if disabling RO or RO-after-init memory makes
>> something work, we have an instant diagnosis.
> 
> Seems easiest to have an arg just skip calling mark_rodata_ro(). I can add that.
> 

Exactly.

	-hpa


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