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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm/Kconfig')
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diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig index ab906b801047..03823e784f63 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig @@ -1009,3 +1009,24 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN help This option specifies the architecture can support big endian operation. + +config ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS + bool "Restrict kernel memory permissions" + 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 + padded to section-size (1MiB) boundaries (because their permissions + are different and splitting the 1M pages into 4K ones causes TLB + performance problems), wasting memory. + +config DEBUG_RODATA + bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" + depends on ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS + default y + help + If this is set, kernel text and rodata will be made read-only. This + is to help catch accidental or malicious attempts to change the + kernel's executable code. Additionally splits rodata from kernel + text so it can be made explicitly non-executable. This creates + another section-size padded region, so it can waste more memory + space while gaining the read-only protections. |