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From: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modules
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:49:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <817ecb6f0909220849t2142f6bdhdeb0180dedc646d2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090921214046.GA17243@redhat.com>

> Hi Siarhei,
>  I tried out this patch on 2.6.31, and got the following trace during bootup..
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1003 ftrace_bug+0x198/0x27e() (Not tainted)
> Hardware name: VGN-Z540N
...
> ---[ end trace 95b33ebf87286ae6 ]---
> ftrace faulted on writing [<ffffffffa0000193>] video_output_register+0x11/0x10a [output]
>
>
> I guess ftrace is trying to NOP out something in the modules which
> are marked read-only ?

Entirely possible. I will review ftrace and make sure the patch
accounts for this.

Thank you.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-22 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11  2:50 Siarhei Liakh
2009-09-21 21:40 ` Dave Jones
2009-09-22 15:49   ` Siarhei Liakh [this message]
2009-10-05 11:57     ` Siarhei Liakh
2009-09-21 23:59 ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-22 15:50   ` Siarhei Liakh

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