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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/s390/kernel/module.c, branch linux-rolling-stable</title>
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<title>s390: Add stackprotector support</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T10:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2025-11-17T14:09:53+00:00</published>
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Stackprotector support was previously unavailable on s390 because by
default compilers generate code which is not suitable for the kernel:
the canary value is accessed via thread local storage, where the address
of thread local storage is within access registers 0 and 1.

Using those registers also for the kernel would come with a significant
performance impact and more complicated kernel entry/exit code, since
access registers contents would have to be exchanged on every kernel entry
and exit.

With the upcoming gcc 16 release new compiler options will become available
which allow to generate code suitable for the kernel. [1]

Compiler option -mstack-protector-guard=global instructs gcc to generate
stackprotector code that refers to a global stackprotector canary value via
symbol __stack_chk_guard. Access to this value is guaranteed to occur via
larl and lgrl instructions.

Furthermore, compiler option -mstack-protector-guard-record generates a
section containing all code addresses that reference the canary value.

To allow for per task canary values the instructions which load the address
of __stack_chk_guard are patched so they access a lowcore field instead: a
per task canary value is available within the task_struct of each task, and
is written to the per-cpu lowcore location on each context switch.

Also add sanity checks and debugging option to be consistent with other
kernel code patching mechanisms.

Full debugging output can be enabled with the following kernel command line
options:

debug_stackprotector
bootdebug
ignore_loglevel
earlyprintk
dyndbg="file stackprotector.c +p"

Example debug output:

stackprot: 0000021e402d4eda: c010005a9ae3 -&gt; c01f00070240

where "&lt;insn address&gt;: &lt;old insn&gt; -&gt; &lt;new insn&gt;".

[1] gcc commit 0cd1f03939d5 ("s390: Support global stack protector")

Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Stackprotector support was previously unavailable on s390 because by
default compilers generate code which is not suitable for the kernel:
the canary value is accessed via thread local storage, where the address
of thread local storage is within access registers 0 and 1.

Using those registers also for the kernel would come with a significant
performance impact and more complicated kernel entry/exit code, since
access registers contents would have to be exchanged on every kernel entry
and exit.

With the upcoming gcc 16 release new compiler options will become available
which allow to generate code suitable for the kernel. [1]

Compiler option -mstack-protector-guard=global instructs gcc to generate
stackprotector code that refers to a global stackprotector canary value via
symbol __stack_chk_guard. Access to this value is guaranteed to occur via
larl and lgrl instructions.

Furthermore, compiler option -mstack-protector-guard-record generates a
section containing all code addresses that reference the canary value.

To allow for per task canary values the instructions which load the address
of __stack_chk_guard are patched so they access a lowcore field instead: a
per task canary value is available within the task_struct of each task, and
is written to the per-cpu lowcore location on each context switch.

Also add sanity checks and debugging option to be consistent with other
kernel code patching mechanisms.

Full debugging output can be enabled with the following kernel command line
options:

debug_stackprotector
bootdebug
ignore_loglevel
earlyprintk
dyndbg="file stackprotector.c +p"

Example debug output:

stackprot: 0000021e402d4eda: c010005a9ae3 -&gt; c01f00070240

where "&lt;insn address&gt;: &lt;old insn&gt; -&gt; &lt;new insn&gt;".

[1] gcc commit 0cd1f03939d5 ("s390: Support global stack protector")

Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/modules: Simplify module_finalize() slightly</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T10:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-17T14:09:52+00:00</published>
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Preinitialize the return value, and break out the for loop in
module_finalize() in case of an error to get rid of an ifdef.

This makes it easier to add additional code, which may also depend
on config options.

Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Preinitialize the return value, and break out the for loop in
module_finalize() in case of an error to get rid of an ifdef.

This makes it easier to add additional code, which may also depend
on config options.

Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch: make execmem setup available regardless of CONFIG_MODULES</title>
<updated>2024-05-14T07:31:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (IBM)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-05T16:06:24+00:00</published>
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execmem does not depend on modules, on the contrary modules use
execmem.

To make execmem available when CONFIG_MODULES=n, for instance for
kprobes, split execmem_params initialization out from
arch/*/kernel/module.c and compile it when CONFIG_EXECMEM=y

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé &lt;philmd@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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execmem does not depend on modules, on the contrary modules use
execmem.

To make execmem available when CONFIG_MODULES=n, for instance for
kprobes, split execmem_params initialization out from
arch/*/kernel/module.c and compile it when CONFIG_EXECMEM=y

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé &lt;philmd@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>mm/execmem, arch: convert remaining overrides of module_alloc to execmem</title>
<updated>2024-05-14T07:31:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (IBM)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-05T16:06:20+00:00</published>
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Extend execmem parameters to accommodate more complex overrides of
module_alloc() by architectures.

This includes specification of a fallback range required by arm, arm64
and powerpc, EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA type required by powerpc, support for
allocation of KASAN shadow required by s390 and x86 and support for
late initialization of execmem required by arm64.

The core implementation of execmem_alloc() takes care of suppressing
warnings when the initial allocation fails but there is a fallback range
defined.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu@dudau.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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Extend execmem parameters to accommodate more complex overrides of
module_alloc() by architectures.

This includes specification of a fallback range required by arm, arm64
and powerpc, EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA type required by powerpc, support for
allocation of KASAN shadow required by s390 and x86 and support for
late initialization of execmem required by arm64.

The core implementation of execmem_alloc() takes care of suppressing
warnings when the initial allocation fails but there is a fallback range
defined.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu@dudau.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()</title>
<updated>2024-05-14T07:31:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (IBM)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-05T16:06:18+00:00</published>
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module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code.

Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems
that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and
puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code.

Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various
constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes
additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation.

Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc()
and execmem_free() APIs.

Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and
execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all
call sites to use the new APIs.

Since architectures define different restrictions on placement,
permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by
different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes
a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to
allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that
subsystem.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code.

Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems
that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and
puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code.

Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various
constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes
additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation.

Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc()
and execmem_free() APIs.

Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and
execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all
call sites to use the new APIs.

Since architectures define different restrictions on placement,
permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by
different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes
a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to
allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that
subsystem.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/module: fix rela calculation for R_390_GOTENT</title>
<updated>2023-06-20T17:55:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sumanth Korikkar</name>
<email>sumanthk@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-05T07:55:27+00:00</published>
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During  module load, module layout allocation occurs by initially
allowing the architecture to frob the sections. This is performed via
module_frob_arch_sections().

However, the size of each module memory types like text,data,rodata etc
are updated correctly only after layout_sections().

After calculation of required module memory sizes for each types,
move_module() is responsible for allocating the module memory for each
type from modules vaddr range.

Considering the sequence above, module_frob_arch_sections() updates the
module mod_arch_specific got_offset before module memory text type size
is fully updated in layout_sections().  Hence mod_arch_specific
got_offset points to currently zero.

As per s390 ABI,
R_390_GOTENT :  (G + O + A - P) &gt;&gt; 1
where
G=me-&gt;mem[MOD_TEXT].base+me-&gt;arch.got_offset
O=info-&gt;got_offset
A=rela-&gt;r_addend
P=loc

fix R_390_GOTENT calculation in apply_rela().

Note: currently this doesn't break anything because me-&gt;arch.got_offset
is zero.  However, reordering of functions in the future could break it.

Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar &lt;sumanthk@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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During  module load, module layout allocation occurs by initially
allowing the architecture to frob the sections. This is performed via
module_frob_arch_sections().

However, the size of each module memory types like text,data,rodata etc
are updated correctly only after layout_sections().

After calculation of required module memory sizes for each types,
move_module() is responsible for allocating the module memory for each
type from modules vaddr range.

Considering the sequence above, module_frob_arch_sections() updates the
module mod_arch_specific got_offset before module memory text type size
is fully updated in layout_sections().  Hence mod_arch_specific
got_offset points to currently zero.

As per s390 ABI,
R_390_GOTENT :  (G + O + A - P) &gt;&gt; 1
where
G=me-&gt;mem[MOD_TEXT].base+me-&gt;arch.got_offset
O=info-&gt;got_offset
A=rela-&gt;r_addend
P=loc

fix R_390_GOTENT calculation in apply_rela().

Note: currently this doesn't break anything because me-&gt;arch.got_offset
is zero.  However, reordering of functions in the future could break it.

Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar &lt;sumanthk@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-6.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-30T18:43:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-30T18:43:31+00:00</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Add support for stackleak feature. Also allow specifying
   architecture-specific stackleak poison function to enable faster
   implementation. On s390, the mvc-based implementation helps decrease
   typical overhead from a factor of 3 to just 25%

 - Convert all assembler files to use SYM* style macros, deprecating the
   ENTRY() macro and other annotations. Select ARCH_USE_SYM_ANNOTATIONS

 - Improve KASLR to also randomize module and special amode31 code base
   load addresses

 - Rework decompressor memory tracking to support memory holes and
   improve error handling

 - Add support for protected virtualization AP binding

 - Add support for set_direct_map() calls

 - Implement set_memory_rox() and noexec module_alloc()

 - Remove obsolete overriding of mem*() functions for KASAN

 - Rework kexec/kdump to avoid using nodat_stack to call purgatory

 - Convert the rest of the s390 code to use flexible-array member
   instead of a zero-length array

 - Clean up uaccess inline asm

 - Enable ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE

 - Convert to using CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT and enable
   DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B

 - Resolve last_break in userspace fault reports

 - Simplify one-level sysctl registration

 - Clean up branch prediction handling

 - Rework CPU counter facility to retrieve available counter sets just
   once

 - Other various small fixes and improvements all over the code

* tag 's390-6.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (118 commits)
  s390/stackleak: provide fast __stackleak_poison() implementation
  stackleak: allow to specify arch specific stackleak poison function
  s390: select ARCH_USE_SYM_ANNOTATIONS
  s390/mm: use VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS in module_alloc()
  s390: wire up memfd_secret system call
  s390/mm: enable ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  s390/mm: use BIT macro to generate SET_MEMORY bit masks
  s390/relocate_kernel: adjust indentation
  s390/relocate_kernel: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/entry: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/purgatory: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/kprobes: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/reipl: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/head64: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/earlypgm: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/mcount: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/crc32le: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/crc32be: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/crypto,chacha: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/amode31: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  ...
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Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Add support for stackleak feature. Also allow specifying
   architecture-specific stackleak poison function to enable faster
   implementation. On s390, the mvc-based implementation helps decrease
   typical overhead from a factor of 3 to just 25%

 - Convert all assembler files to use SYM* style macros, deprecating the
   ENTRY() macro and other annotations. Select ARCH_USE_SYM_ANNOTATIONS

 - Improve KASLR to also randomize module and special amode31 code base
   load addresses

 - Rework decompressor memory tracking to support memory holes and
   improve error handling

 - Add support for protected virtualization AP binding

 - Add support for set_direct_map() calls

 - Implement set_memory_rox() and noexec module_alloc()

 - Remove obsolete overriding of mem*() functions for KASAN

 - Rework kexec/kdump to avoid using nodat_stack to call purgatory

 - Convert the rest of the s390 code to use flexible-array member
   instead of a zero-length array

 - Clean up uaccess inline asm

 - Enable ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE

 - Convert to using CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT and enable
   DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B

 - Resolve last_break in userspace fault reports

 - Simplify one-level sysctl registration

 - Clean up branch prediction handling

 - Rework CPU counter facility to retrieve available counter sets just
   once

 - Other various small fixes and improvements all over the code

* tag 's390-6.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (118 commits)
  s390/stackleak: provide fast __stackleak_poison() implementation
  stackleak: allow to specify arch specific stackleak poison function
  s390: select ARCH_USE_SYM_ANNOTATIONS
  s390/mm: use VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS in module_alloc()
  s390: wire up memfd_secret system call
  s390/mm: enable ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  s390/mm: use BIT macro to generate SET_MEMORY bit masks
  s390/relocate_kernel: adjust indentation
  s390/relocate_kernel: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/entry: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/purgatory: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/kprobes: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/reipl: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/head64: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/earlypgm: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/mcount: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/crc32le: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/crc32be: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/crypto,chacha: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  s390/amode31: use SYM* macros instead of ENTRY(), etc.
  ...
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<entry>
<title>s390/mm: use VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS in module_alloc()</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T09:36:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-14T12:30:46+00:00</published>
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Make use of the set_direct_map() calls for module allocations.
In particular:

- All changes to read-only permissions in kernel VA mappings are also
  applied to the direct mapping. Note that execute permissions are
  intentionally not applied to the direct mapping in order to make
  sure that all allocated pages within the direct mapping stay
  non-executable

- module_alloc() passes the VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS to __vmalloc_node_range()
  to make sure that all implicit permission changes made to the direct
  mapping are reset when the allocated vm area is freed again

Side effects: the direct mapping will be fragmented depending on how many
vm areas with VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS and/or explicit page permission changes
are allocated and freed again.

For example, just after boot of a system the direct mapping statistics look
like:

$cat /proc/meminfo
...
DirectMap4k:      111628 kB
DirectMap1M:    16665600 kB
DirectMap2G:           0 kB

Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Make use of the set_direct_map() calls for module allocations.
In particular:

- All changes to read-only permissions in kernel VA mappings are also
  applied to the direct mapping. Note that execute permissions are
  intentionally not applied to the direct mapping in order to make
  sure that all allocated pages within the direct mapping stay
  non-executable

- module_alloc() passes the VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS to __vmalloc_node_range()
  to make sure that all implicit permission changes made to the direct
  mapping are reset when the allocated vm area is freed again

Side effects: the direct mapping will be fragmented depending on how many
vm areas with VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS and/or explicit page permission changes
are allocated and freed again.

For example, just after boot of a system the direct mapping statistics look
like:

$cat /proc/meminfo
...
DirectMap4k:      111628 kB
DirectMap1M:    16665600 kB
DirectMap2G:           0 kB

Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/module: create module allocations without exec permissions</title>
<updated>2023-04-13T15:36:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-02T18:55:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1707c1165283a9634717971f17692535c21ab0eb'/>
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This is the s390 variant of commit 7dfac3c5f40e ("arm64: module: create
module allocations without exec permissions"):

"The core code manages the executable permissions of code regions of
modules explicitly. It is no longer necessary to create the module vmalloc
regions with RWX permissions. So create them with RW- permissions instead,
which is preferred from a security perspective."

Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This is the s390 variant of commit 7dfac3c5f40e ("arm64: module: create
module allocations without exec permissions"):

"The core code manages the executable permissions of code regions of
modules explicitly. It is no longer necessary to create the module vmalloc
regions with RWX permissions. So create them with RW- permissions instead,
which is preferred from a security perspective."

Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/ftrace: do not assume module_alloc() returns executable memory</title>
<updated>2023-04-13T15:36:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-02T18:55:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7c7ab788c0959c363b5cb2ac5ff4822fc12ccba5'/>
<id>7c7ab788c0959c363b5cb2ac5ff4822fc12ccba5</id>
<content type='text'>
The ftrace code assumes at two places that module_alloc() returns
executable memory. While this is currently true, this will be changed
with a subsequent patch to follow other architectures which implement
ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX.

Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The ftrace code assumes at two places that module_alloc() returns
executable memory. While this is currently true, this will be changed
with a subsequent patch to follow other architectures which implement
ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX.

Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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