With CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX=y and CONFIG_KPROBES=y, there will be one
W+X page at boot by default. This can be tested with
CONFIG_PPC_PTDUMP=y and CONFIG_PPC_DEBUG_WX=y set, and checking the
kernel log during boot.
powerpc doesn't implement its own alloc() for kprobes like other
architectures do, but we couldn't immediately mark RO anyway since we do
a memcpy to the page we allocate later. After that, nothing should be
allowed to modify the page, and write permissions are removed well
before the kprobe is armed.
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <rus...@russell.cc>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
index 2d27ec4feee4..2610496de7c7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <asm/sstep.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/set_memory.h>
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, current_kprobe) = NULL;
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
@@ -131,6 +132,8 @@ int arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
(unsigned long)p->ainsn.insn + sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
}
+ set_memory_ro((unsigned long)p->ainsn.insn, 1);
+
p->ainsn.boostable = 0;
return ret;
}
--
2.23.0
