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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index b5b13a932561..fdcd54d39c1e 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -1800,11 +1800,11 @@ config RANDOMIZE_BASE If unsure, say N. config RANDOMIZE_MODULE_REGION_FULL - bool "Randomize the module region over a 4 GB range" + bool "Randomize the module region over a 2 GB range" depends on RANDOMIZE_BASE default y help - Randomizes the location of the module region inside a 4 GB window + Randomizes the location of the module region inside a 2 GB window covering the core kernel. This way, it is less likely for modules to leak information about the location of core kernel data structures but it does imply that function calls between modules and the core @@ -1812,7 +1812,10 @@ config RANDOMIZE_MODULE_REGION_FULL When this option is not set, the module region will be randomized over a limited range that contains the [_stext, _etext] interval of the - core kernel, so branch relocations are always in range. + core kernel, so branch relocations are almost always in range unless + ARM64_MODULE_PLTS is enabled and the region is exhausted. In this + particular case of region exhaustion, modules might be able to fall + back to a larger 2GB area. config CC_HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR_SYSREG def_bool $(cc-option,-mstack-protector-guard=sysreg -mstack-protector-guard-reg=sp_el0 -mstack-protector-guard-offset=0) |