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authorNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>2013-08-14 22:36:32 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-08-29 09:47:36 -0700
commit90dbc54a171ca7fd96c35d2858d30baf5d7c6376 (patch)
tree732c486cf9f4deab14e8352b36f8e697cc94dfb4 /arch/arm
parent6c6f6c7166e9ee45e545eab850a2862a92c135b2 (diff)
ARM: 7816/1: CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS: fix help text
commit ac124504ecf6b20a2457d873d0728a8b991a5b0c upstream. Commit f6f91b0d9fd9 ("ARM: allow kuser helpers to be removed from the vector page") introduced some help text for the CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS option which is rather contradictory. Let's fix that, and improve it a little. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/Kconfig9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index 2950082a531..08c9fe917d1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -789,15 +789,18 @@ config KUSER_HELPERS
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. However,
- when such an binary or library is run, it will receive a SIGILL
- signal, which will terminate the program.
+ 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.