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    powerpc/64s: Disable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX · 8659a0e0
    Michael Ellerman authored
    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: 1e0fc9d1 ("powerpc/Kconfig: Enable STRICT_KERNEL_RWX for some configs")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.13+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200520133605.972649-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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