Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:04:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches |
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > There's just no *point*.
Put another way: we lived without DEBUG_RODATA for fifteen years, why should we now start adding complexity to work around code that doesn't accept the (fairly small) debugging it gives?
Has anybody actually found a bug using it?
As far as I know, the biggest reason to use DEBUG_RODATA is
(a) Hey, it's a cheap way to check one thing
(b) An added layer of security (which it's not that great for, but it might make sense to make it more of a real security feature).
and neither of them really seems to say "let's add more code to other pieces of the kernel to work around it" to me.
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