[PATCH] powerpc/64s: Disable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri May 29 00:04:42 AEST 2020


On Wed, 20 May 2020 23:36:05 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/fixes.

[1/1] powerpc/64s: Disable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8659a0e0efdd975c73355dbc033f79ba3b31e82c

cheers


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