linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: testcases for RODATA: fix config dependency

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:12:27 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@...il.com>,
        Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: testcases for RODATA: fix config dependency

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:36:37 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
>> >  config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
>> >      bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only"
>> > -    depends on DEBUG_RODATA
>> > +    depends on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
>> >      ---help---
>> >        This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only.
>>
>> Great, thanks!
>>
>> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>>
>> Andrew, do you want to take this patch, since it applies on top of
>> "mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA", or do you want me to
>> take both patches into my KSPP tree which has the DEBUG_RODATA ->
>> STRICT_KERNEL_RWX renaming series?
>
> I staged this and mm-add-arch-independent-testcases-for-rodata.patch
> after linux-next and shall merge them after the STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
> rename has gone into mainline.

Awesome, thanks!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security