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authorChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>2025-09-09 12:03:49 +0200
committerMadhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>2025-09-16 16:16:00 +0530
commit9316512b717f6f25c4649b3fdb0a905b6a318e9f (patch)
tree4fbbab2694704e213657717f8d462bd5e98a24a2
parent7cec88bfdd33434d62d4d5ba664127fa175b50e7 (diff)
powerpc/32: Remove PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT to fix startup failure
PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT is an old macro that is used to tell kernel whether kernel text has to be mapped read-only or read-write based on build time options. But nowadays, with functionnalities like jump_labels, static links, etc ... more only less all kernels need to be read-write at some point, and some combinations of configs failed to work due to innacurate setting of PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT. On the other hand, today we have CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX which implements a more controlled access to kernel modifications. Instead of trying to keep PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT accurate with all possible options that may imply kernel text modification, always set kernel text read-write at startup and rely on CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX to provide accurate protection. Do this by passing PAGE_KERNEL_X to map_kernel_page() in __maping_ram_chunk() instead of passing PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT. Once this is done, the only remaining user of PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT is mmu_mark_initmem_nx() which uses it in a call to setibat(). As setibat() ignores the RW/RO, we can seamlessly replace PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT by PAGE_KERNEL_X here as well and get rid of PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT completely. Reported-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f@mailbox.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/342b4120-911c-4723-82ec-d8c9b03a8aef@mailbox.org/ Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8e2d793abf87ae3efb8f6dce10f974ac0eda61b8.1757412205.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h12
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c4
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c2
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
index fd29fb289d1e..17fd7ff6e535 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -20,18 +20,6 @@ struct mm_struct;
#include <asm/nohash/pgtable.h>
#endif /* !CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S */
-/*
- * Protection used for kernel text. We want the debuggers to be able to
- * set breakpoints anywhere, so don't write protect the kernel text
- * on platforms where such control is possible.
- */
-#if defined(CONFIG_KGDB) || defined(CONFIG_XMON) || defined(CONFIG_BDI_SWITCH) || \
- defined(CONFIG_KPROBES) || defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT PAGE_KERNEL_X
-#else
-#define PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT PAGE_KERNEL_ROX
-#endif
-
/* Make modules code happy. We don't set RO yet */
#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL_X
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c
index be9c4106e22f..c42ecdf94e48 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ int mmu_mark_initmem_nx(void)
for (i = 0; i < nb - 1 && base < top;) {
size = bat_block_size(base, top);
- setibat(i++, PAGE_OFFSET + base, base, size, PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT);
+ setibat(i++, PAGE_OFFSET + base, base, size, PAGE_KERNEL_X);
base += size;
}
if (base < top) {
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ int mmu_mark_initmem_nx(void)
pr_warn("Some RW data is getting mapped X. "
"Adjust CONFIG_DATA_SHIFT to avoid that.\n");
}
- setibat(i++, PAGE_OFFSET + base, base, size, PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT);
+ setibat(i++, PAGE_OFFSET + base, base, size, PAGE_KERNEL_X);
base += size;
}
for (; i < nb; i++)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
index 15276068f657..0c9ef705803e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static void __init __mapin_ram_chunk(unsigned long offset, unsigned long top)
p = memstart_addr + s;
for (; s < top; s += PAGE_SIZE) {
ktext = core_kernel_text(v);
- map_kernel_page(v, p, ktext ? PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT : PAGE_KERNEL);
+ map_kernel_page(v, p, ktext ? PAGE_KERNEL_X : PAGE_KERNEL);
v += PAGE_SIZE;
p += PAGE_SIZE;
}