[PATCH v5 4/5] powerpc: Set ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX

Russell Currey
2019-10-30T07:32:32Z

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@russell.cc>
---
This means that Daniel's test on book3e64 is pretty useless since we've
gone from being unable to turn it *off* to being unable to turn it *on*.

I think this is the right course of action for now.

arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 8f7005f0d097..52028e27f2d3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ 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) && !RELOCATABLE && !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
--
2.23.0