[PATCH] UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=n

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu Apr 18 15:14:34 UTC 2013


Forgot to note that this is for ubuntu-nexus4.

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:06:13AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> It turns out we had two options enabled which were making the
> kernel text read only. Turning off CONFIG_STRICT_MEMORY_RWX
> fixed function tracing, but kprobes still don't work.
> CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA seems to be something added by Google to
> mimic the same option in x86, but the x86 version does some
> tricks to make kprobes work which are lacking in the ARM
> version. Turn off this option so that kprobes will work and
> remove the corresponding enforcer rule.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
> ---
>  debian.nexus4/config/config.common.ubuntu |    3 +--
>  debian.nexus4/config/enforce              |    1 -
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian.nexus4/config/config.common.ubuntu b/debian.nexus4/config/config.common.ubuntu
> index fcf42e8..3ae1a29 100644
> --- a/debian.nexus4/config/config.common.ubuntu
> +++ b/debian.nexus4/config/config.common.ubuntu
> @@ -487,8 +487,7 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y
>  # CONFIG_DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC is not set
>  # CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is not set
>  # CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is not set
> -CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y
> -# CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST is not set
> +# CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is not set
>  # CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES is not set
>  # CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH is not set
>  # CONFIG_DEBUG_SG is not set
> diff --git a/debian.nexus4/config/enforce b/debian.nexus4/config/enforce
> index 2021810..c967afb 100644
> --- a/debian.nexus4/config/enforce
> +++ b/debian.nexus4/config/enforce
> @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ value CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR y
>  # For architectures which support this option ensure it is enabled.
>  !exists CONFIG_SECCOMP | value CONFIG_SECCOMP y
>  !exists CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR | value CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR y
> -!exists CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA | value CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA y
>  !exists CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM | value CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM y
>  # For architectures which support this option ensure it is disabled.
>  !exists CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO | value CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO n
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
> 
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