From: lauraa@codeaurora.org (Laura Abbott)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS only works with MMU enabled
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:04:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B6F5E5.7060202@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1976703.4VfV2sWda0@wuerfel>
On 1/13/2015 6:14 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The recently added ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS feature works by manipulating
> the kernel page tables, which obviously requires an MMU. Trying
> to enable this feature when the MMU is disabled results in a lot
> of compile errors in mm/init.c, so let's add a Kconfig dependency
> to avoid that case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> index eaaf196fe4e1..0051cd924fb1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -1010,6 +1010,7 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
>
> config ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
> bool "Restrict kernel memory permissions"
> + depends on MMU
> help
> If this is set, kernel memory other than kernel text (and rodata)
> will be made non-executable. The tradeoff is that each region is
>
>
Acked-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-13 14:14 [PATCH] ARM: ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS only works with MMU enabled Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-13 14:41 ` Kees Cook
2015-01-14 23:04 ` Laura Abbott [this message]
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