[PATCH 2/2] LoongArch: Enable STRICT_MODULE_RWX for stricter modules memory permissions

From: haoran . jiang

Date: Sat Jun 06 2026 - 09:25:54 EST


From: Haoran Jiang <jianghaoran@xxxxxxxxxx>

Enable STRICT_MODULE_RWX to enforce strict memory permissions
on modules,making the code region non-writable, the data region
non-executable, and the read-only data region both non-writable
and non-executable.Add patch_map interface to temporarily map
read-only code sections via fixmap, enabling runtime code patching
while preserving memory protection after modifications

Signed-off-by: Haoran Jiang <jianghaoran@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/loongarch/Kconfig | 2 ++
arch/loongarch/include/asm/fixmap.h | 1 +
arch/loongarch/kernel/inst.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Kconfig b/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
index 606597da46b8..40d748a13c50 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/loongarch/Kconfig
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ config LOONGARCH
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL if 64BIT
select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
select ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
+ select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN
select ARCH_HAS_VDSO_ARCH_DATA
@@ -197,6 +198,7 @@ config LOONGARCH
select NUMA_MEMBLKS if NUMA
select OF
select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE
+ select ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
select PCI
select PCI_DOMAINS_GENERIC
select PCI_ECAM if ACPI
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/loongarch/include/asm/fixmap.h
index 5a9b04c720bf..7d174eafdc21 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/arch/loongarch/include/asm/fixmap.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ enum fixed_addresses {
FIX_KMAP_END = FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + (KM_MAX_IDX * NR_CPUS) - 1,
#endif
FIX_EARLYCON_MEM_BASE,
+ FIX_TEXT_POKE0,
__end_of_fixed_addresses
};

diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/inst.c b/arch/loongarch/kernel/inst.c
index 0b9228b7c13a..7c4f60a7e892 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/inst.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/inst.c
@@ -9,9 +9,33 @@

#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/inst.h>
+#include <linux/kprobes.h>

static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(patch_lock);

+static void __kprobes *patch_map(void *addr, const unsigned int fixmap)
+{
+ phys_addr_t phys;
+
+ if ((unsigned long)addr < vm_map_base) {
+ return addr;
+ } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX)) {
+ struct page *page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
+
+ BUG_ON(!page);
+ phys = page_to_phys(page) + offset_in_page(addr);
+ } else {
+ return addr;
+ }
+
+ return (void *)set_fixmap_offset(fixmap, phys);
+}
+
+static void __kprobes patch_unmap(int fixmap)
+{
+ clear_fixmap(fixmap);
+}
+
void simu_pc(struct pt_regs *regs, union loongarch_instruction insn)
{
unsigned long pc = regs->csr_era;
@@ -208,12 +232,15 @@ int larch_insn_write(void *addr, u32 insn)
{
int ret;
unsigned long flags = 0;
+ void *waddr = addr;

if ((unsigned long)addr & 3)
return -EINVAL;

raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&patch_lock, flags);
- ret = copy_to_kernel_nofault(addr, &insn, LOONGARCH_INSN_SIZE);
+ waddr = patch_map(addr, FIX_TEXT_POKE0);
+ ret = copy_to_kernel_nofault(waddr, &insn, LOONGARCH_INSN_SIZE);
+ patch_unmap(FIX_TEXT_POKE0);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&patch_lock, flags);

return ret;
--
2.25.1