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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 1f926e396ec1..b162ce1482fc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1254,10 +1254,13 @@ config X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION Disabling this option saves about 7K of kernel size and possibly 4K of additional runtime pagetable memory. -config X86_IOPL_EMULATION - bool "IOPL Emulation" +config X86_IOPL_IOPERM + bool "IOPERM and IOPL Emulation" default y ---help--- + This enables the ioperm() and iopl() syscalls which are necessary + for legacy applications. + Legacy IOPL support is an overbroad mechanism which allows user space aside of accessing all 65536 I/O ports also to disable interrupts. To gain this access the caller needs CAP_SYS_RAWIO |