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| author | Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com> | 2023-06-23 14:14:09 +0300 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2023-09-14 13:19:53 +0200 |
| commit | a11e097504ac1889b35b6858f495565838325f88 (patch) | |
| tree | 29b1e60da1b2f02f8641da78cf2f116535971480 /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | 61382281e9054df523d3f9cfdba2faff88955f97 (diff) | |
x86: Make IA32_EMULATION boot time configurable
Distributions would like to reduce their attack surface as much as
possible but at the same time they'd want to retain flexibility to cater
to a variety of legacy software. This stems from the conjecture that
compat layer is likely rarely tested and could have latent security
bugs. Ideally distributions will set their default policy and also
give users the ability to override it as appropriate.
To enable this use case, introduce CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED
compile time option, which controls whether 32bit processes/syscalls
should be allowed or not. This option is aimed mainly at distributions
to set their preferred default behavior in their kernels.
To allow users to override the distro's policy, introduce the 'ia32_emulation'
parameter which allows overriding CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED
state at boot time.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623111409.3047467-7-nik.borisov@suse.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 982b777eadc7..c130bf3176fe 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -2954,6 +2954,15 @@ config IA32_EMULATION 64-bit kernel. You should likely turn this on, unless you're 100% sure that you don't have any 32-bit programs left. +config IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED + bool "IA32 emulation disabled by default" + default n + depends on IA32_EMULATION + help + Make IA32 emulation disabled by default. This prevents loading 32-bit + processes and access to 32-bit syscalls. If unsure, leave it to its + default value. + config X86_X32_ABI bool "x32 ABI for 64-bit mode" depends on X86_64 |