[PATCH v2 4/7] powerpc: Set ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Sat Feb 1 00:34:52 AEDT 2020


From: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>

To enable strict module RWX on powerpc, set:

    CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=y

You should also have CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX=y set to have any real
security benefit.

ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX is set to require ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX.
This is due to a quirk in arch/Kconfig and arch/powerpc/Kconfig that
makes STRICT_MODULE_RWX *on by default* in configurations where
STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is *unavailable*.

Since this doesn't make much sense, and module RWX without kernel RWX
doesn't make much sense, having the same dependencies as kernel RWX
works around this problem.

Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
---
v2: no change
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index ae6a27d07406..371e3bef5c32 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ config PPC
 	select ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME		if VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE && PPC_BOOK3S_64
 	select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
 	select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX	if ((PPC_BOOK3S_64 || PPC32) && !HIBERNATION)
+	select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX	if ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
 	select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST		if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
 	select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
 	select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE		if PPC64
-- 
2.25.0



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