From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chleroy@kernel.org,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCHv2 1/3] powerpc/execmem: Don't leave kprobes insn pages W+X when CONFIG_MODULES=n
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:01:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f75f2cf97f44375fd2c8820e0caeab703cdb371c.1794572365.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1794572365.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com>
commit 2e83e2ce34ff ("arch, mm: promote DEBUG_WX to CHECK_WX"), made
CHECK_WX default STRICT_KERNEL_RWX.
Now on powerpc, when we boot with CONFIG_KPROBES=y and CONFIG_MODULES=n,
we can see the following warning splat at boot:
powerpc/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address 000000002ea08992/0xc008000000000000
WARNING: arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c:194 at note_page+0x4dc/0x4fc, CPU#0: swapper/0/1
NIP [c0000000000ac204] note_page+0x4dc/0x4fc
LR [c0000000000ac200] note_page+0x4d8/0x4fc
Call Trace:
note_page+0x4d8/0x4fc (unreliable)
ptdump_pte_entry+0x70/0x94
walk_pte_range_inner+0x15c/0x260
walk_pgd_range+0x6d8/0xd5c
walk_page_range_debug+0xa4/0xf0
ptdump_walk_pgd+0xec/0x304
ptdump_check_wx+0xd8/0x154
kernel_init+0x94/0x26c
ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, 1 W+X pages found
This happens because CHECK_WX noted a writeable + executable mapping.
This happens because execmem_arch_setup(), checks for
struct_modules_rwx_enabled(), while kprobes depenency on modules was
earlier removed via commit:
7582b7be16d0 ("kprobes: remove dependency on CONFIG_MODULES")
Since the insn slots are only written with patch_instruction(), which
does not need this mapping to be writable. This patch fixes it by
checking for strict_kernel_rwx_enabled() instead.
Fixes: 7582b7be16d0 ("kprobes: remove dependency on CONFIG_MODULES")
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index b617b69452cd..77b63b52d8f2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static void prealloc_execmem_pgtable(void) { }
struct execmem_info __init *execmem_arch_setup(void)
{
- pgprot_t kprobes_prot = strict_module_rwx_enabled() ? PAGE_KERNEL_ROX : PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
+ pgprot_t kprobes_prot = strict_kernel_rwx_enabled() ? PAGE_KERNEL_ROX : PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
pgprot_t prot = strict_module_rwx_enabled() ? PAGE_KERNEL : PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
unsigned long fallback_start = 0, fallback_end = 0;
unsigned long start, end;
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-13 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-13 12:31 [PATCHv2 0/3] powerpc: kprobes insn page fixes Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-11-13 12:31 ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM) [this message]
2026-11-13 12:31 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] powerpc/execmem: Allocate kprobes insn pages from the modules area on book3s/32 Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-11-13 12:31 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] powerpc/ptdump: Show the exec flag of kernel mappings on e500 Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
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