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Diffstat (limited to 'security/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/Kconfig | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig index 93027fdf47d1..bdcbb92927ab 100644 --- a/security/Kconfig +++ b/security/Kconfig @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ config HARDENED_USERCOPY copying memory to/from the kernel (via copy_to_user() and copy_from_user() functions) by rejecting memory ranges that are larger than the specified heap object, span multiple - separately allocates pages, are not on the process stack, + separately allocated pages, are not on the process stack, or are part of the kernel text. This kills entire classes of heap overflow exploits and similar kernel memory exposures. |