module: clean up RO/NX handling.

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Modules have three sections: text, rodata and writable data.  The code
handled the case where these overlapped, however they never can:
debug_align() ensures they are always page-aligned.

This is why we got away with manually traversing the pages in
set_all_modules_text_rw() without rounding.

We create three helper functions: frob_text(), frob_rodata() and
frob_writable_data().  We then call these explicitly at every point,
so it's clear what we're doing.

We also expose module_enable_ro() and module_disable_ro() for
livepatch to use.

Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

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Rusty Russell 2015-11-26 09:45:08 +10:30 • committed by Jiri Kosina

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