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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 78d3168b3c6..8d1e8d95ea4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -282,14 +282,16 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long address, #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA) && \ !defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) /* - * Kernel text mappings for the large page aligned .rodata section - * will be read-only. For the kernel identity mappings covering - * the holes caused by this alignment can be anything. + * Once the kernel maps the text as RO (kernel_set_to_readonly is set), + * kernel text mappings for the large page aligned text, rodata sections + * will be always read-only. For the kernel identity mappings covering + * the holes caused by this alignment can be anything that user asks. * * This will preserve the large page mappings for kernel text/data * at no extra cost. */ - if (within(address, (unsigned long)_text, + if (kernel_set_to_readonly && + within(address, (unsigned long)_text, (unsigned long)__end_rodata_hpage_align)) pgprot_val(forbidden) |= _PAGE_RW; #endif |