Allow DEBUG_RODATA and KPROBES to co-exist

Do not mark the kernel text read only if KPROBES is in the kernel;
kprobes needs to hot-patch the kernel text to insert it's
instrumentation.

In this case, only mark the .rodata segment as read only.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: S. P. Prasanna <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug
index 8a8677518447..775d211a5cf9 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
 config DEBUG_RODATA
        bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures"
        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
-       depends on !KPROBES # temporary for 2.6.22
        help
          Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables,
          in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const data.
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
index efb6e845114e..9a0e98accf04 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
@@ -605,6 +605,11 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
         if (num_possible_cpus() > 1)
                 start = (unsigned long)_etext;
 #endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
+        start = (unsigned long)__start_rodata;
+#endif
+        
         end = (unsigned long)__end_rodata;
         start = (start + PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK;
         end &= PAGE_MASK;