commit 39290b389ea upstream. The current "rodata=off" parameter disables read-only kernel mappings under CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA: commit d2aa1acad22f ("mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings") This patch is a logical extension to module mappings ie. read-only mappings at module loading can be disabled even if CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX (mainly for debug use). Please note, however, that it only affects RO/RW permissions, keeping NX set. This is the first step to make CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX mandatory (always-on) in the future as CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA on x86 and arm64. Suggested-by: and Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161114061505.15238-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> [v4.9 backport] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [v4.9 backport] Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Tested-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>