From 385ce0ea4c078517fa51c261882c4e72fba53005 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:08:03 +0100 Subject: x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig Finally allow CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION to be enabled. PARAVIRT generally requires that the kernel not manage its own page tables. It also means that the hypervisor and kernel must agree wholeheartedly about what format the page tables are in and what they contain. PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION, unfortunately, changes the rules and they can not be used together. I've seen conflicting feedback from maintainers lately about whether they want the Kconfig magic to go first or last in a patch series. It's going last here because the partially-applied series leads to kernels that can not boot in a bunch of cases. I did a run through the entire series with CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y to look for build errors, though. [ tglx: Removed SMP and !PARAVIRT dependencies as they not longer exist ] Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: David Laight Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Greg KH Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- security/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'security/Kconfig') diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig index e8e449444e65..a623d13bf288 100644 --- a/security/Kconfig +++ b/security/Kconfig @@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ config SECURITY_NETWORK implement socket and networking access controls. If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. +config PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION + bool "Remove the kernel mapping in user mode" + depends on X86_64 && !UML + help + This feature reduces the number of hardware side channels by + ensuring that the majority of kernel addresses are not mapped + into userspace. + + See Documentation/x86/pagetable-isolation.txt for more details. + config SECURITY_INFINIBAND bool "Infiniband Security Hooks" depends on SECURITY && INFINIBAND -- cgit v1.2.3