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powerpc/64s: Disable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Wed, 20 May 2020 13:36:05 +0000 (23:36 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 27 May 2020 15:48:17 +0000 (17:48 +0200)
commit21b7cfd9b53aefaabbb7dfe5d32d6265a894b47f
tree8e659a2a1cc938b3a9af85e8bd98e60847a1d982
parent20ab89df7c1b899da9be1fbccd59e87bf4a5a6c7
powerpc/64s: Disable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX

commit 8659a0e0efdd975c73355dbc033f79ba3b31e82c upstream.

Several strange crashes have been eventually traced back to
STRICT_KERNEL_RWX and its interaction with code patching.

Various paths in our ftrace, kprobes and other patching code need to
be hardened against patching failures, otherwise we can end up running
with partially/incorrectly patched ftrace paths, kprobes or jump
labels, which can then cause strange crashes.

Although fixes for those are in development, they're not -rc material.

There also seem to be problems with the underlying strict RWX logic,
which needs further debugging.

So for now disable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 64-bit to prevent people from
enabling the option and tripping over the bugs.

Fixes: 1e0fc9d1eb2b ("powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.13+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200520133605.972649-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/Kconfig