There are a couple of reasons that the set_memory() functions are
problematic when STRICT_KERNEL_RWX isn't enabled:

 - The linear mapping is a different size and apply_to_page_range()
        may modify a giant section, breaking everything
 - patch_instruction() doesn't know to work around a page being marked
        RO, and will subsequently crash

The latter can be replicated by building a kernel with the set_memory()
patches but with STRICT_KERNEL_RWX off and running ftracetest.

Reported-by: Jordan Niethe <jniet...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <rus...@russell.cc>
---
v5: Apply to both set_memory_attr() and change_memory_attr()
v4: New

 arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c
index ee6b5e3b7604..49b8e2e0581d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -64,13 +64,18 @@ static int change_page_attr(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long 
addr, void *data)
 
 int change_memory_attr(unsigned long addr, int numpages, long action)
 {
-       unsigned long start = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
-       unsigned long sz = numpages * PAGE_SIZE;
+       unsigned long start, size;
+
+       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX))
+               return 0;
 
        if (!numpages)
                return 0;
 
-       return apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, start, sz, change_page_attr, (void 
*)action);
+       start = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
+       size = numpages * PAGE_SIZE;
+
+       return apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, start, size, change_page_attr, 
(void *)action);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -96,12 +101,17 @@ static int set_page_attr(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, 
void *data)
 
 int set_memory_attr(unsigned long addr, int numpages, pgprot_t prot)
 {
-       unsigned long start = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
-       unsigned long sz = numpages * PAGE_SIZE;
+       unsigned long start, size;
+
+       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX))
+               return 0;
 
        if (!numpages)
                return 0;
 
-       return apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, start, sz, set_page_attr,
+       start = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
+       size = numpages * PAGE_SIZE;
+
+       return apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, start, size, set_page_attr,
                                   (void *)pgprot_val(prot));
 }
-- 
2.25.1

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