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 15:46:44 +0000 (17:46 +0200)
commit4c732e81bd4dc2c2eca34a10d0e4427003e3e800
tree6d99253c32a6957633821c98c0f24de3c1aaf565
parentb67da9dbdb89630453dab53ca3619b53ba77b88a
powerpc/64s: Disable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX

[ Upstream commit 8659a0e0efdd975c73355dbc033f79ba3b31e82c ]

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: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/powerpc/Kconfig