Re: [patch] mark text section read-only

Andi Kleen writes:

[...]

 > 
 > Overall I doubt it is worth it even as a debugging option. I so far cannot
 > remember a single bug that was caused by overwriting kernel text.

I wouldn't forget that one for a long time:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106503116306729&w=2

 > 
 > -Andi
 > 

Nikita.
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