[PATCHv2 1/7] ppc bpf/jit: Disable classic BPF JIT on ppc64le

Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jun 23 02:25:01 AEST 2016


Classic BPF JIT was never ported completely to work on little endian
powerpc. However, it can be enabled and will crash the system when used.
As such, disable use of BPF JIT on ppc64le.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matt Evans <matt at ozlabs.org>
Cc: Denis Kirjanov <kda at linux-powerpc.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast at fb.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel at iogearbox.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in.ibm.com>
Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at redhat.com>
Reported-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 01f7464..0a9d439 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ config PPC
 	select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
 	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE if SMP
 	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
-	select HAVE_CBPF_JIT
+	select HAVE_CBPF_JIT if CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 	select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
 	select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
-- 
2.8.2



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