Commit b080e521 authored by Shuah Khan's avatar Shuah Khan Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: default avatarShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208164051.8783-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 4fd34f8e

Documentation/security/self-protection.rst

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@@ -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