Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:16:56 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 4.10 kernel on thinkpad x220: rodata_test: test data was not read only |
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On Tue 2017-02-21 16:12:01, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > is NX enabled in the bios?
Yes. (Plus, read-only should work even without NX, right?)
Pavel
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I'm getting > > > > [ 3.822386] VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device > > 8:4. > > [ 3.840420] devtmpfs: mounted > > [ 3.842346] Freeing unused kernel memory: 536K > > [ 3.844081] Write protecting the kernel text: 11764k > > [ 3.845753] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 4780k > > [ 3.847326] rodata_test: test data was not read only > > [ 3.848906] NX-protecting the kernel data: 6668k > > [ 3.850662] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages > > found. > > > > I guess that means that kernel hardening does not work as > > expected... 32bit kernel on thinkpad x220. > > > > Git blame points to > > > > commit edeed30589f5defe63ce6aaae56f2b7c855e4520 > > Author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> > > Date: Wed Jan 30 13:34:08 2008 +0100 > > > > x86: add testcases for RODATA and NX protections/attributes > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Pavel > > > > -- > > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni. > > cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html > >
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