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| author | Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-12-08 09:40:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2021-12-10 14:02:06 -0700 |
| commit | b080e52110ea30b1ec6dcc2e9dbac786ac104ddd (patch) | |
| tree | 47d57a42c4de4e0b9633f8215727600d3d4f8191 /Documentation/security | |
| parent | 4fd34f8e1ff70cd7f86e18deb20be35f4605f5f6 (diff) | |
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docs: update self-protection __ro_after_init status
__ro_after_init is no longer new and under development. Update the
document to reflect the correct status.
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208164051.8783-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/self-protection.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/self-protection.rst b/Documentation/security/self-protection.rst index f584fb74b4ff..910668e665cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/self-protection.rst +++ b/Documentation/security/self-protection.rst @@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ of the kernel, gaining the protection of the kernel's strict memory permissions as described above. For variables that are initialized once at ``__init`` time, these can -be marked with the (new and under development) ``__ro_after_init`` -attribute. +be marked with the ``__ro_after_init`` attribute. What remains are variables that are updated rarely (e.g. GDT). These will need another infrastructure (similar to the temporary exceptions |