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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 37 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig index 6cacdc8dd654..cd2c88e7a8f7 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig @@ -421,24 +421,28 @@ config CPU_32v3 select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if MMU select NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG if SMP select TLS_REG_EMUL if SMP || !MMU + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS config CPU_32v4 bool select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if MMU select NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG if SMP select TLS_REG_EMUL if SMP || !MMU + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS config CPU_32v4T bool select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if MMU select NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG if SMP select TLS_REG_EMUL if SMP || !MMU + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS config CPU_32v5 bool select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if MMU select NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG if SMP select TLS_REG_EMUL if SMP || !MMU + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS config CPU_32v6 bool @@ -776,6 +780,7 @@ config CPU_BPREDICT_DISABLE config TLS_REG_EMUL bool + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS help An SMP system using a pre-ARMv6 processor (there are apparently a few prototypes like that in existence) and therefore access to @@ -783,11 +788,43 @@ config TLS_REG_EMUL config NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG bool + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS help SMP on a pre-ARMv6 processor? Well OK then. Forget about fast user space cmpxchg support. It is just not possible. +config NEED_KUSER_HELPERS + bool + +config KUSER_HELPERS + bool "Enable kuser helpers in vector page" if !NEED_KUSER_HELPERS + default y + help + Warning: disabling this option may break user programs. + + Provide kuser helpers in the vector page. The kernel provides + helper code to userspace in read only form at a fixed location + in the high vector page to allow userspace to be independent of + the CPU type fitted to the system. This permits binaries to be + run on ARMv4 through to ARMv7 without modification. + + See Documentation/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt for details. + + However, the fixed address nature of these helpers can be used + by ROP (return orientated programming) authors when creating + exploits. + + If all of the binaries and libraries which run on your platform + are built specifically for your platform, and make no use of + these helpers, then you can turn this option off to hinder + such exploits. However, in that case, if a binary or library + relying on those helpers is run, it will receive a SIGILL signal, + which will terminate the program. + + Say N here only if you are absolutely certain that you do not + need these helpers; otherwise, the safe option is to say Y. + config DMA_CACHE_RWFO bool "Enable read/write for ownership DMA cache maintenance" depends on CPU_V6K && SMP |