powerpc: Set ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
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. Book3s/32 603 and 604 core processors are not able to write protect kernel pages so do not set ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX for Book3s/32. [jpn: - predicate on !PPC_BOOK3S_604 - make module_alloc() use PAGE_KERNEL protection] Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609013431.9805-8-jniethe5@gmail.com
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