4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
commit 084eb77cd3a8 upstream.
Add a Kconfig entry to control use of the entry trampoline, which allows
us to unmap the kernel whilst running in userspace and improve the
robustness of KASLR.
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labb...@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni <shank...@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex....@linaro.org> [v4.9 backport]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> [v4.9 backport]
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Tested-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackm...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
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arch/arm64/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -733,6 +733,19 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
However for 4K, we choose a higher default value, 11 as opposed to
10, giving us
4M allocations matching the default size used by generic code.
+config UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
+ bool "Unmap kernel when running in userspace (aka \"KAISER\")"
+ default y
+ help
+ Some attacks against KASLR make use of the timing difference between
+ a permission fault which could arise from a page table entry that is
+ present in the TLB, and a translation fault which always requires a
+ page table walk. This option defends against these attacks by
unmapping
+ the kernel whilst running in userspace, therefore forcing translation
+ faults for all of kernel space.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
menuconfig ARMV8_DEPRECATED
bool "Emulate deprecated/obsolete ARMv8 instructions"
depends on COMPAT
