On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:29:54AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
> > Isn't there a reason it was read-write on m68k, like the table may be
> > changed
> > at runtime (to install rootkits :-)? Have to check what the other arches
> > do...
>
> Initially the syscall_table in Linux has always been writable, bb152f53
> ("x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: make some datastructures
> const") made it read-only on x86. Apparently nobody bothered to do the
> equivalent change on m68k (I don't think anything makes the kernel text
> segment write protected anyway).
Except, of course, ld config files who put text and rodata in ROM/FLASH for XIP
on embedded systems.
Philippe
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