From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/11] arm64: Kconfig: Reword UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 kconfig entry
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 07:39:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180104153939.GA3818@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515078515-13723-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:08:26PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Although CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 does make KASLR more robust, it's
> actually more useful as a mitigation against speculation attacks that
> can leak arbitrary kernel data to userspace through speculation.
>
> Reword the Kconfig help message to reflect this, and make the option
> depend on EXPERT so that it is on by default for the majority of users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Why is this not reusing the PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION setting in
security/Kconfig ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-04 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 15:08 [PATCH 00/11] arm64 kpti hardening and variant 2 workarounds Will Deacon
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 01/11] arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline Will Deacon
2018-01-04 16:24 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-04 18:31 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-04 18:35 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 02/11] arm64: Kconfig: Reword UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 kconfig entry Will Deacon
2018-01-04 15:39 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 03/11] arm64: Take into account ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.CSV3 Will Deacon
2018-01-04 23:15 ` Laura Abbott
2018-01-05 10:24 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 04/11] arm64: cpufeature: Pass capability structure to ->enable callback Will Deacon
2018-01-05 10:29 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 05/11] drivers/firmware: Expose psci_get_version through psci_ops structure Will Deacon
2018-01-04 16:10 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 06/11] arm64: Move post_ttbr_update_workaround to C code Will Deacon
2018-01-04 16:25 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 07/11] arm64: Add skeleton to harden the branch predictor against aliasing attacks Will Deacon
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 08/11] arm64: KVM: Use per-CPU vector when BP hardening is enabled Will Deacon
2018-01-04 16:28 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-04 17:04 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-04 17:05 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 09/11] arm64: KVM: Make PSCI_VERSION a fast path Will Deacon
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 10/11] arm64: cputype: Add missing MIDR values for Cortex-A72 and Cortex-A75 Will Deacon
2018-01-04 15:08 ` [PATCH 11/11] arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for affected Cortex-A CPUs Will Deacon
2018-01-04 16:31 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-04 17:14 ` Marc Zyngier
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