On 06/20/2007 07:04 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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 as a security feature it's pretty useless if kprobes are allowed.
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