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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 7f74b4ce7934..131dedcdcdfd 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -494,6 +494,20 @@ 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 |