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| author | Gary S. Robertson <gary.robertson@linaro.org> | 2016-01-20 15:45:29 -0600 |
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| committer | Gary S. Robertson <gary.robertson@linaro.org> | 2016-01-20 15:45:29 -0600 |
| commit | 1d10e9e61dedad92bcf380a421d08f021e62ff1b (patch) | |
| tree | 8e7641caa0710f4eba713a7f25de5eb314720993 /arch/arm64/Kconfig | |
| parent | d532db8c82faef41ad16e6db7a8459aa21f4a822 (diff) | |
| parent | 9f41e6b222c4a04c7b46068df82842a6188b4a57 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'lsk-v4.1-15.12' of http://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable into linux-linaro-lng-v4.1linux-lng-4.1.14-2016.03linux-lng-4.1.14-2016.02linux-lng-4.1.14-2016.01linux-linaro-lng-v4.1
LSK 15.12 v4.1
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/Kconfig | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index 6f0a3b41b009..cb71db3d578d 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -609,6 +609,20 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER default "14" if (ARM64_64K_PAGES && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) default "11" +config ARM64_PAN + bool "Enable support for Privileged Access Never (PAN)" + default y + help + Privileged Access Never (PAN; part of the ARMv8.1 Extensions) + prevents the kernel or hypervisor from accessing user-space (EL0) + memory directly. + + Choosing this option will cause any unprotected (not using + copy_to_user et al) memory access to fail with a permission fault. + + The feature is detected at runtime, and will remain as a 'nop' + instruction if the cpu does not implement the feature. + menuconfig ARMV8_DEPRECATED bool "Emulate deprecated/obsolete ARMv8 instructions" depends on COMPAT |