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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2013-12-10 12:27:45 -0800 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2014-01-14 10:45:56 -0800 |
| commit | da2b6fb990cf782b18952f534ec7323453bc4fc9 (patch) | |
| tree | e62a0446bfdd523aad2ac64b60cd7b577a04b0f2 /arch | |
| parent | 19259943f0954dcd1817f94776376bf51c6a46d5 (diff) | |
x86, kaslr: Clarify RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET
The help text for RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET was confusing. This has been
clarified, and updated to be an export-only tunable.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131210202745.GA2961@www.outflux.net
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 29 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 596cd9edeb9c..5c9e19dccf2f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1747,26 +1747,33 @@ config RANDOMIZE_BASE possible. At best, due to page table layouts, 64-bit can use 9 bits of entropy and 32-bit uses 8 bits. + If unsure, say N. + config RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET - hex "Maximum ASLR offset allowed" + hex "Maximum kASLR offset allowed" if EXPERT depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE range 0x0 0x20000000 if X86_32 default "0x20000000" if X86_32 range 0x0 0x40000000 if X86_64 default "0x40000000" if X86_64 ---help--- - Determines the maximal offset in bytes that will be applied to the - kernel when Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is active. - Must be less than or equal to the actual physical memory on the - system. This must be a multiple of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN. + The lesser of RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET and available physical + memory is used to determine the maximal offset in bytes that will + be applied to the kernel when kernel Address Space Layout + Randomization (kASLR) is active. This must be a multiple of + PHYSICAL_ALIGN. + + On 32-bit this is limited to 512MiB by page table layouts. The + default is 512MiB. - On 32-bit this is limited to 512MiB. + On 64-bit this is limited by how the kernel fixmap page table is + positioned, so this cannot be larger than 1GiB currently. Without + RANDOMIZE_BASE, there is a 512MiB to 1.5GiB split between kernel + and modules. When RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET is above 512MiB, the + modules area will shrink to compensate, up to the current maximum + 1GiB to 1GiB split. The default is 1GiB. - On 64-bit this is limited by how the kernel fixmap page table is - positioned, so this cannot be larger that 1GiB currently. Normally - there is a 512MiB to 1.5GiB split between kernel and modules. When - this is raised above the 512MiB default, the modules area will - shrink to compensate, up to the current maximum 1GiB to 1GiB split. + If unsure, leave at the default value. # Relocation on x86 needs some additional build support config X86_NEED_RELOCS |