Commit 9316512
powerpc/32: Remove PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT to fix startup failure
PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT is an old macro that is used to tell kernel whether
kernel text has to be mapped read-only or read-write based on build
time options.
But nowadays, with functionnalities like jump_labels, static links,
etc ... more only less all kernels need to be read-write at some
point, and some combinations of configs failed to work due to
innacurate setting of PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT. On the other hand, today
we have CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX which implements a more controlled
access to kernel modifications.
Instead of trying to keep PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT accurate with all
possible options that may imply kernel text modification, always
set kernel text read-write at startup and rely on
CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX to provide accurate protection.
Do this by passing PAGE_KERNEL_X to map_kernel_page() in
__maping_ram_chunk() instead of passing PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT. Once
this is done, the only remaining user of PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT is
mmu_mark_initmem_nx() which uses it in a call to setibat().
As setibat() ignores the RW/RO, we can seamlessly replace
PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT by PAGE_KERNEL_X here as well and get rid of
PAGE_KERNEL_TEXT completely.
Reported-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/342b4120-911c-4723-82ec-d8c9b03a8aef@mailbox.org/
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8e2d793abf87ae3efb8f6dce10f974ac0eda61b8.1757412205.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu1 parent 7cec88b commit 9316512
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