arm64: Kconfig: Add CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:41:01 +0000 (14:41 +0000)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:41:10 +0000 (13:41 +0000)
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.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arch/arm64/Kconfig

index fdcc7b9bb15dd4e4997c9f3a1ce4054571c3b8f2..3af1657fcac3ed5bb7f65a4e4a132d1b20f1a019 100644 (file)
@@ -833,6 +833,19 @@ 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