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authorDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>2020-03-16 16:50:55 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2020-03-16 17:19:50 +0000
commit383499f8863ea8ce869ba62cec91d9f709c9459b (patch)
treee41c084e0c25de21422bbf0ab1c5054e1194526c /arch/arm64/Kconfig
parent424037b77519d1537872442ba144dda1464988d7 (diff)
arm64: BTI: Add Kconfig entry for userspace BTI
Now that the code for userspace BTI support is in the kernel add the Kconfig entry so that it can be built and used. [Split out of "arm64: Basic Branch Target Identification support" -- broonie] Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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@@ -1522,6 +1522,28 @@ endmenu
menu "ARMv8.5 architectural features"
+config ARM64_BTI
+ bool "Branch Target Identification support"
+ default y
+ help
+ Branch Target Identification (part of the ARMv8.5 Extensions)
+ provides a mechanism to limit the set of locations to which computed
+ branch instructions such as BR or BLR can jump.
+
+ To make use of BTI on CPUs that support it, say Y.
+
+ BTI is intended to provide complementary protection to other control
+ flow integrity protection mechanisms, such as the Pointer
+ authentication mechanism provided as part of the ARMv8.3 Extensions.
+ For this reason, it does not make sense to enable this option without
+ also enabling support for pointer authentication. Thus, when
+ enabling this option you should also select ARM64_PTR_AUTH=y.
+
+ Userspace binaries must also be specifically compiled to make use of
+ this mechanism. If you say N here or the hardware does not support
+ BTI, such binaries can still run, but you get no additional
+ enforcement of branch destinations.
+
config ARM64_E0PD
bool "Enable support for E0PD"
default y