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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/Kconfig | 23 |
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index 0b3aa2a894a7..2a67abeca041 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -1260,6 +1260,29 @@ config ARM64_CNP endmenu +menu "ARMv8.3 architectural features" + +config ARM64_PTR_AUTH + bool "Enable support for pointer authentication" + default y + help + Pointer authentication (part of the ARMv8.3 Extensions) provides + instructions for signing and authenticating pointers against secret + keys, which can be used to mitigate Return Oriented Programming (ROP) + and other attacks. + + This option enables these instructions at EL0 (i.e. for userspace). + + Choosing this option will cause the kernel to initialise secret keys + for each process at exec() time, with these keys being + context-switched along with the process. + + The feature is detected at runtime. If the feature is not present in + hardware it will not be advertised to userspace nor will it be + enabled. + +endmenu + config ARM64_SVE bool "ARM Scalable Vector Extension support" default y |