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ARM: add DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX option to Kconfig
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Now that all the page setting infrastructure is in place,
Add the DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX to the ARM debugging Kconfig.
When turned on, data sections for modules will be marked as NX
and read only sections will be marked as such.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Laura Abbott authored and Russell King committed Dec 11, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -1162,4 +1162,15 @@ config PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR
additional instructions during context switch. Say Y here only if you
are planning to use hardware trace tools with this kernel.

config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO"
depends on MODULES
---help---
This option helps catch unintended modifications to loadable
kernel module's text and read-only data. It also prevents execution
of module data. Such protection may interfere with run-time code
patching and dynamic kernel tracing - and they might also protect
against certain classes of kernel exploits.
If in doubt, say "N".

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