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authorLaura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>2017-02-06 16:31:58 -0800
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2017-02-07 12:32:52 -0800
commit0f5bf6d0afe4be6e1391908ff2d6dc9730e91550 (patch)
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parentarch: Move CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and CONFIG_SET_MODULE_RONX to be common (diff)
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arch: Rename CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and CONFIG_DEBUG_MODULE_RONX
Both of these options are poorly named. The features they provide are necessary for system security and should not be considered debug only. Change the names to CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX and CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX to better describe what these options do. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl
index f3abca7ec53d..856ac20bf367 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl
@@ -115,12 +115,12 @@
</para>
<para>
If the architecture that you are using supports the kernel option
- CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA, you should consider turning it off. This
+ CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX, you should consider turning it off. This
option will prevent the use of software breakpoints because it
marks certain regions of the kernel's memory space as read-only.
If kgdb supports it for the architecture you are using, you can
use hardware breakpoints if you desire to run with the
- CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA option turned on, else you need to turn off
+ CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX option turned on, else you need to turn off
this option.
</para>
<para>
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
<para>Here is an example set of .config symbols to enable or
disable for kgdb:
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para># CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is not set</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para># CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is not set</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CONFIG_KGDB=y</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y</para></listitem>
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
</para>
<para>Here is an example set of .config symbols to enable/disable kdb:
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para># CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is not set</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para># CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is not set</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CONFIG_KGDB=y</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y</para></listitem>