Re: [patch] mark text section read-only

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Nov 12 2005 - 12:32:30 EST


On Saturday 12 November 2005 00:30, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Andi Kleen writes:
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > Overall I doubt it is worth it even as a debugging option. I so far cannot
> > remember a single bug that was caused by overwriting kernel text.
>
> I wouldn't forget that one for a long time:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106503116306729&w=2

Ok then maybe as a debug CONFIG, but definitely not default.

-Andi
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