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| author | Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> | 2019-11-21 11:59:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-11-25 09:15:32 +0100 |
| commit | fb041bb7c0a918b95c6889fc965cdc4a75b4c0ca (patch) | |
| tree | 5aa81da7df6a7a1374a7d3c42f0a9bde3a3f4722 /arch/Kconfig | |
| parent | 65b008552469f1c37f5e06e0016924502e40b4f5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fb041bb7c0a918b95c6889fc965cdc4a75b4c0ca.tar.bz2 | |
locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t
The generic implementation of refcount_t should be good enough for
everybody, so remove ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT and REFCOUNT_FULL entirely,
leaving the generic implementation enabled unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191121115902.2551-9-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 21 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 5f8a5d84dbbe..8bcc1c746142 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -892,27 +892,6 @@ config STRICT_MODULE_RWX config ARCH_HAS_PHYS_TO_DMA bool -config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT - bool - help - An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t - using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized - refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full - refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y. - - The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained. - Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting - against bugs in reference counts. - -config REFCOUNT_FULL - bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed" - help - Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast - unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked - implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections - against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in - security flaw exploits. - config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H bool help |