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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/Kconfig.debug | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug index 1d41908..12bca63 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug @@ -692,4 +692,15 @@ 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". + endmenu -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
