From 4c732e81bd4dc2c2eca34a10d0e4427003e3e800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 23:36:05 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200520133605.972649-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 198bbf4..3dc5aec 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ config PPC select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS select ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME if VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE && PPC_BOOK3S_64 - select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX if ((PPC_BOOK3S_64 || PPC32) && !HIBERNATION) + select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX if (PPC32 && !HIBERNATION) select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE if PPC64 -- 2.7.4