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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 3800fab1619b..0795d790cc56 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -450,6 +450,35 @@ this allows system administrators to override the ``IA64_THREAD_UAC_NOPRINT`` ``prctl`` and avoid logs being flooded. +io_uring_disabled +================= + +Prevents all processes from creating new io_uring instances. Enabling this +shrinks the kernel's attack surface. + += ====================================================================== +0 All processes can create io_uring instances as normal. This is the + default setting. +1 io_uring creation is disabled (io_uring_setup() will fail with + -EPERM) for unprivileged processes not in the io_uring_group group. + Existing io_uring instances can still be used. See the + documentation for io_uring_group for more information. +2 io_uring creation is disabled for all processes. io_uring_setup() + always fails with -EPERM. Existing io_uring instances can still be + used. += ====================================================================== + + +io_uring_group +============== + +When io_uring_disabled is set to 1, a process must either be +privileged (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) or be in the io_uring_group group in order +to create an io_uring instance. If io_uring_group is set to -1 (the +default), only processes with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability may create +io_uring instances. + + kexec_load_disabled =================== |