[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: make some datastructures const
Mark some key kernel datastructures readonly. This patch was previously
posted on Jun 28th but was back then not merged because nothing was enforcing
rodata anyway.. well that changed now :)
Patch by Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> and Dave Jones
<davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S b/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
index e50b9315..607c060 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@
pushl $do_spurious_interrupt_bug
jmp error_code
+.section .rodata,"a"
#include "syscall_table.S"
syscall_table_size=(.-sys_call_table)
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
index 9b21a31..f7ba4ac 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-.data
ENTRY(sys_call_table)
.long sys_restart_syscall /* 0 - old "setup()" system call, used for restarting */
.long sys_exit