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Message-ID: <CALAqxLWMP7MFNRPTU3Ar3m=D1hFdS=d7_tbhkyrEadUQrRe7qw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:12:31 -0800
From: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To: Jess Frazelle <me@...sfraz.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, 
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] time: mark syscore_ops as __ro_after_init

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Jess Frazelle <me@...sfraz.com> wrote:
> Marked syscore_ops structs as __ro_after_init when register_syscore_ops was
> called only during init. Most of the caller functions were already annotated as
> __init.
> unregister_syscore_ops() was never called on these ops.
> This protects the data structure from accidental corruption.
>
> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jess Frazelle <me@...sfraz.com>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

Thanks for sending this out. Looks reasonable to me. I'll queue it for
testing, targeting for 4.12.

thanks
-john

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