powerpc/64s: Disable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Wed, 20 May 2020 13:36:05 +0000 (23:36 +1000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 21 May 2020 14:04:51 +0000 (00:04 +1000)
commit8659a0e0efdd975c73355dbc033f79ba3b31e82c
treee72bbf89392a7adbb4ba18b6a65336a8612b9aa7
parent40bb0e904212cf7d6f041a98c58c8341b2016670
powerpc/64s: Disable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX

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
arch/powerpc/Kconfig