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- # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
- #
- # General architecture dependent options
- #
- config CRASH_CORE
- bool
- config KEXEC_CORE
- select CRASH_CORE
- bool
- config HAVE_IMA_KEXEC
- bool
- config HOTPLUG_SMT
- bool
- config OPROFILE
- tristate "OProfile system profiling"
- depends on PROFILING
- depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
- select RING_BUFFER
- select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
- help
- OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
- whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
- and applications.
- If unsure, say N.
- config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
- bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- default n
- depends on OPROFILE && X86
- help
- The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
- feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
- are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
- between events at a user specified time interval.
- If unsure, say N.
- config HAVE_OPROFILE
- bool
- config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
- def_bool y
- depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
- config KPROBES
- bool "Kprobes"
- depends on MODULES
- depends on HAVE_KPROBES
- select KALLSYMS
- help
- Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
- execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
- a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
- for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
- If in doubt, say "N".
- config JUMP_LABEL
- bool "Optimize very unlikely/likely branches"
- depends on HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
- help
- This option enables a transparent branch optimization that
- makes certain almost-always-true or almost-always-false branch
- conditions even cheaper to execute within the kernel.
- Certain performance-sensitive kernel code, such as trace points,
- scheduler functionality, networking code and KVM have such
- branches and include support for this optimization technique.
- If it is detected that the compiler has support for "asm goto",
- the kernel will compile such branches with just a nop
- instruction. When the condition flag is toggled to true, the
- nop will be converted to a jump instruction to execute the
- conditional block of instructions.
- This technique lowers overhead and stress on the branch prediction
- of the processor and generally makes the kernel faster. The update
- of the condition is slower, but those are always very rare.
- ( On 32-bit x86, the necessary options added to the compiler
- flags may increase the size of the kernel slightly. )
- config STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST
- bool "Static key selftest"
- depends on JUMP_LABEL
- help
- Boot time self-test of the branch patching code.
- config OPTPROBES
- def_bool y
- depends on KPROBES && HAVE_OPTPROBES
- select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT
- config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
- def_bool y
- depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
- depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
- help
- If function tracer is enabled and the arch supports full
- passing of pt_regs to function tracing, then kprobes can
- optimize on top of function tracing.
- config UPROBES
- def_bool n
- depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
- help
- Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they
- enable instrumentation applications (such as 'perf probe')
- to establish unintrusive probes in user-space binaries and
- libraries, by executing handler functions when the probes
- are hit by user-space applications.
- ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints,
- managed by the kernel and kept transparent to the probed
- application. )
- config HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
- def_bool 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
- help
- Some architectures require 64 bit accesses to be 64 bit
- aligned, which also requires structs containing 64 bit values
- to be 64 bit aligned too. This includes some 32 bit
- architectures which can do 64 bit accesses, as well as 64 bit
- architectures without unaligned access.
- This symbol should be selected by an architecture if 64 bit
- accesses are required to be 64 bit aligned in this way even
- though it is not a 64 bit architecture.
- See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
- information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
- config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
- bool
- help
- Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
- without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
- unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
- unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
- handler.)
- This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
- perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
- code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
- drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
- problems with received packets if doing so would not help
- much.
- See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
- information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
- config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
- bool
- help
- Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions
- for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old
- inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the
- __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's
- happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In
- particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap
- with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or
- store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It
- should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the
- hand-coded assembler in <asm/swab.h>. But just in case it
- does, the use of the builtins is optional.
- Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap
- instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it
- on architectures that don't have such instructions.
- config KRETPROBES
- def_bool y
- depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
- config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
- bool
- depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
- help
- Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to
- switch to user mode.
- config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
- bool
- config HAVE_KPROBES
- bool
- config HAVE_KRETPROBES
- bool
- config HAVE_OPTPROBES
- bool
- config HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
- bool
- config HAVE_NMI
- bool
- #
- # An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
- #
- # task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
- # arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
- # arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
- # asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
- # linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
- # CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
- # TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
- # TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
- # signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
- #
- config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
- bool
- config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
- bool
- config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
- bool
- config GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
- bool
- config ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
- bool
- help
- An architecture should select this when it can successfully
- build and run with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
- # Select if arch has all set_memory_ro/rw/x/nx() functions in asm/cacheflush.h
- config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
- bool
- # Select if arch init_task initializer is different to init/init_task.c
- config ARCH_INIT_TASK
- bool
- # Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
- config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
- bool
- # Select if arch has its private alloc_thread_stack() function
- config ARCH_THREAD_STACK_ALLOCATOR
- bool
- # Select if arch wants to size task_struct dynamically via arch_task_struct_size:
- config ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
- bool
- config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
- bool
- help
- This symbol should be selected by an architecure if it supports
- the API needed to access registers and stack entries from pt_regs,
- declared in asm/ptrace.h
- For example the kprobes-based event tracer needs this API.
- config HAVE_CLK
- bool
- help
- The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
- thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
- config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
- bool
- config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
- bool
- depends on PERF_EVENTS
- config HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
- bool
- depends on HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
- help
- Depending on the arch implementation of hardware breakpoints,
- some of them have separate registers for data and instruction
- breakpoints addresses, others have mixed registers to store
- them but define the access type in a control register.
- Select this option if your arch implements breakpoints under the
- latter fashion.
- config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
- bool
- config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
- bool
- help
- System hardware can generate an NMI using the perf event
- subsystem. Also has support for calculating CPU cycle events
- to determine how many clock cycles in a given period.
- config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF
- bool
- depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
- help
- The arch chooses to use the generic perf-NMI-based hardlockup
- detector. Must define HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.
- config HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
- depends on HAVE_NMI
- bool
- help
- The arch provides a low level NMI watchdog. It provides
- asm/nmi.h, and defines its own arch_touch_nmi_watchdog().
- config HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
- bool
- select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
- help
- The arch chooses to provide its own hardlockup detector, which is
- a superset of the HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG. It also conforms to config
- interfaces and parameters provided by hardlockup detector subsystem.
- config HAVE_PERF_REGS
- bool
- help
- Support selective register dumps for perf events. This includes
- bit-mapping of each registers and a unique architecture id.
- config HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
- bool
- help
- Support user stack dumps for perf event samples. This needs
- access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
- architectures.
- config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
- bool
- config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
- bool
- config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE
- bool
- config ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM
- bool
- help
- Temporary select until all architectures can be converted to have
- irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB
- shootdowns should enable this.
- config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
- bool
- config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
- bool
- help
- This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
- e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
- on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
- might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
- config HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
- bool
- config HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
- bool
- config ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE
- bool
- config ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
- bool
- config ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
- bool
- config ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
- select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
- bool
- config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
- bool
- help
- An arch should select this symbol if it provides all of these things:
- - syscall_get_arch()
- - syscall_get_arguments()
- - syscall_rollback()
- - syscall_set_return_value()
- - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
- - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
- - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value of -1
- results in the system call being skipped immediately.
- - seccomp syscall wired up
- config SECCOMP_FILTER
- def_bool y
- depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
- help
- Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
- in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
- task-defined system call filtering polices.
- See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
- config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
- bool
- help
- An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
- GCC plugins.
- menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
- bool "GCC plugins"
- depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
- depends on !COMPILE_TEST
- help
- GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
- compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
- See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
- config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
- bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
- depends on GCC_PLUGINS
- depends on !COMPILE_TEST
- help
- The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
- M = E - N + 2P
- where
- E = the number of edges
- N = the number of nodes
- P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
- Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
- build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
- gcc plugin for the kernel.
- config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
- bool
- depends on GCC_PLUGINS
- help
- This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
- basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
- gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
- by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
- config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
- bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
- depends on GCC_PLUGINS
- help
- By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
- extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
- program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
- there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
- is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
- irq processing.
- Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
- secure!
- This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
- * https://grsecurity.net/
- * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
- config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
- bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses"
- depends on GCC_PLUGINS
- help
- This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a
- __user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information
- exposures.
- This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
- * https://grsecurity.net/
- * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
- config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL
- bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference"
- depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
- help
- Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by
- reference without having been initialized.
- config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
- bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
- depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
- depends on !COMPILE_TEST
- help
- This option will cause a warning to be printed each time the
- structleak plugin finds a variable it thinks needs to be
- initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected
- by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings.
- config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
- bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"
- depends on GCC_PLUGINS
- select MODVERSIONS if MODULES
- help
- If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely
- function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with
- __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly
- marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time.
- This can introduce the requirement of an additional information
- exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure
- types.
- Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
- slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
- tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel
- source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation).
- The seed used for compilation is located at
- scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after
- a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with
- the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or
- make distclean.
- Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer.
- This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
- * https://grsecurity.net/
- * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
- config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
- bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization"
- depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
- depends on !COMPILE_TEST
- help
- If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a
- best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized
- groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields
- in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT
- at the cost of weakened randomization.
- config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
- bool
- help
- An arch should select this symbol if:
- - its compiler supports the -fstack-protector option
- - it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)
- config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
- def_bool n
- help
- Set when a stack-protector mode is enabled, so that the build
- can enable kernel-side support for the GCC feature.
- choice
- prompt "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
- depends on HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
- default CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
- help
- This option turns on the "stack-protector" GCC feature. This
- feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
- the stack just before the return address, and validates
- the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
- overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
- overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
- neutralized via a kernel panic.
- config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
- bool "None"
- help
- Disable "stack-protector" GCC feature.
- config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR
- bool "Regular"
- select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
- help
- Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added if they
- have an 8-byte or larger character array on the stack.
- This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
- gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector").
- On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
- about 3% of all kernel functions, which increases kernel code size
- by about 0.3%.
- config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG
- bool "Strong"
- select CC_STACKPROTECTOR
- help
- Functions will have the stack-protector canary logic added in any
- of the following conditions:
- - local variable's address used as part of the right hand side of an
- assignment or function argument
- - local variable is an array (or union containing an array),
- regardless of array type or length
- - uses register local variables
- This feature requires gcc version 4.9 or above, or a distribution
- gcc with the feature backported ("-fstack-protector-strong").
- On an x86 "defconfig" build, this feature adds canary checks to
- about 20% of all kernel functions, which increases the kernel code
- size by about 2%.
- endchoice
- config THIN_ARCHIVES
- def_bool y
- help
- Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
- instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
- choice
- prompt "Kernel linker"
- default LD_BFD if !LTO_CLANG
- default LD_GOLD if LTO_CLANG
- help
- This selects the linker that will be used to link the kernel and
- its composite objects.
- Note that using either ld.gold or lld is required for Clang LTO.
- ld.bfd will not work.
- config LD_BFD
- bool "bfd"
- depends on !LTO_CLANG
- help
- Use the standard ld.bfd linker from binutils, which is usually the
- default. This linker does not work with Clang LTO.
- config LD_GOLD
- bool "gold"
- depends on LTO_CLANG
- help
- Use the alternative ld.gold linker from binutils.
- config LD_LLD
- bool "lld"
- help
- Use the alternative lld linker from LLVM.
- endchoice
- config LTO
- def_bool n
- config ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
- bool
- help
- An architecture should select this option it supports:
- - compiling with clang,
- - compiling inline assembly with clang's integrated assembler,
- - and linking with either lld or GNU gold w/ LLVMgold.
- config ARCH_SUPPORTS_THINLTO
- bool
- help
- An architecture should select this if it supports clang's ThinLTO.
- config THINLTO
- bool "Use clang ThinLTO (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on LTO_CLANG && ARCH_SUPPORTS_THINLTO
- default y
- help
- Use ThinLTO to speed up Link Time Optimization.
- choice
- prompt "Link-Time Optimization (LTO) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- default LTO_NONE
- help
- This option turns on Link-Time Optimization (LTO).
- config LTO_NONE
- bool "None"
- config LTO_CLANG
- bool "Use clang Link Time Optimization (LTO) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
- depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD || HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
- depends on !KASAN
- select LTO
- select THIN_ARCHIVES
- select LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
- select LD_GOLD
- help
- This option enables clang's Link Time Optimization (LTO), which allows
- the compiler to optimize the kernel globally at link time. If you
- enable this option, the compiler generates LLVM IR instead of object
- files, and the actual compilation from IR occurs at the LTO link step,
- which may take several minutes.
- If you select this option, you must compile the kernel with clang >=
- 5.0 (make CC=clang) and GNU gold from binutils >= 2.27, and have the
- LLVMgold plug-in in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
- endchoice
- config CFI
- bool
- config CFI_PERMISSIVE
- bool "Use CFI in permissive mode"
- depends on CFI
- help
- When selected, Control Flow Integrity (CFI) violations result in a
- warning instead of a kernel panic. This option is useful for finding
- CFI violations in drivers during development.
- config CFI_CLANG
- bool "Use clang Control Flow Integrity (CFI) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on LTO_CLANG
- depends on KALLSYMS
- select CFI
- help
- This option enables clang Control Flow Integrity (CFI), which adds
- runtime checking for indirect function calls.
- config CFI_CLANG_SHADOW
- bool "Use CFI shadow to speed up cross-module checks"
- default y
- depends on CFI_CLANG
- help
- If you select this option, the kernel builds a fast look-up table of
- CFI check functions in loaded modules to reduce overhead.
- config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
- bool
- help
- An architecture should select this if it supports Clang's Shadow
- Call Stack, has asm/scs.h, and implements runtime support for shadow
- stack switching.
- choice
- prompt "Return-oriented programming (ROP) protection"
- default ROP_PROTECTION_NONE
- help
- This option controls kernel protections against return-oriented
- programming (ROP) attacks, which involve overwriting function return
- addresses.
- config ROP_PROTECTION_NONE
- bool "None"
- config SHADOW_CALL_STACK
- bool "Clang Shadow Call Stack"
- depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
- help
- This option enables Clang's Shadow Call Stack, which uses a
- shadow stack to protect function return addresses from being
- overwritten by an attacker. More information can be found from
- Clang's documentation:
- https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html
- Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the ones
- documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses of shadow
- stacks used by other tasks and interrupt handlers in memory, which
- means an attacker capable reading and writing arbitrary memory may
- be able to locate them and hijack control flow by modifying shadow
- stacks that are not currently in use.
- endchoice
- config SHADOW_CALL_STACK_VMAP
- bool "Use virtually mapped shadow call stacks"
- depends on SHADOW_CALL_STACK
- help
- Use virtually mapped shadow call stacks. Selecting this option
- provides better stack exhaustion protection, but increases per-thread
- memory consumption as a full page is allocated for each shadow stack.
- config LLVM_POLLY
- bool "Enable LLVM's polyhedral loop optimizer (Polly)"
- help
- This option enables LLVM's polyhedral loop optimizer known as Polly.
- Polly is able to optimize various loops throughout the kernel for
- maximum cache locality. This requires an LLVM toolchain explicitly
- compiled with Polly support.
- config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
- bool
- help
- An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
- frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
- or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
- and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
- which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
- config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
- bool
- help
- Provide kernel/user boundaries probes necessary for subsystems
- that need it, such as userspace RCU extended quiescent state.
- Syscalls need to be wrapped inside user_exit()-user_enter() through
- the slow path using TIF_NOHZ flag. Exceptions handlers must be
- wrapped as well. Irqs are already protected inside
- rcu_irq_enter/rcu_irq_exit() but preemption or signal handling on
- irq exit still need to be protected.
- config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
- bool
- config ARCH_HAS_SCALED_CPUTIME
- bool
- config HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
- bool
- default y if 64BIT
- help
- With VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN, cputime_t becomes 64-bit.
- Before enabling this option, arch code must be audited
- to ensure there are no races in concurrent read/write of
- cputime_t. For example, reading/writing 64-bit cputime_t on
- some 32-bit arches may require multiple accesses, so proper
- locking is needed to protect against concurrent accesses.
- config HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
- bool
- help
- Archs need to ensure they use a high enough resolution clock to
- support irq time accounting and then call enable_sched_clock_irqtime().
- config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
- bool
- config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
- bool
- config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
- bool
- config HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
- bool
- config HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
- bool
- help
- The arch uses struct mod_arch_specific to store data. Many arches
- just need a simple module loader without arch specific data - those
- should not enable this.
- config MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
- bool
- help
- Modules only use ELF RELA relocations. Modules with ELF REL
- relocations will give an error.
- config MODULES_USE_ELF_REL
- bool
- help
- Modules only use ELF REL relocations. Modules with ELF RELA
- relocations will give an error.
- config HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
- bool
- help
- Some architectures generate an _ in front of C symbols; things like
- module loading and assembly files need to know about this.
- config HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
- bool
- help
- Architecture doesn't only execute the irq handler on the irq stack
- but also irq_exit(). This way we can process softirqs on this irq
- stack instead of switching to a new one when we call __do_softirq()
- in the end of an hardirq.
- This spares a stack switch and improves cache usage on softirq
- processing.
- config PGTABLE_LEVELS
- int
- default 2
- config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
- bool
- help
- An architecture supports choosing randomized locations for
- stack, mmap, brk, and ET_DYN. Defined functions:
- - arch_mmap_rnd()
- - arch_randomize_brk()
- config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
- bool
- help
- An arch should select this symbol if it supports setting a variable
- number of bits for use in establishing the base address for mmap
- allocations, has MMU enabled and provides values for both:
- - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
- - ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
- config HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
- bool
- help
- An architecture implements exit_thread.
- config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
- int
- config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
- int
- config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
- int
- config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
- int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address" if EXPERT
- range ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
- default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_DEFAULT
- default ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
- depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
- help
- This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
- determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
- resulting from mmap allocations. This value will be bounded
- by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
- This value can be changed after boot using the
- /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
- config HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
- bool
- help
- An arch should select this symbol if it supports running applications
- in compatibility mode, supports setting a variable number of bits for
- use in establishing the base address for mmap allocations, has MMU
- enabled and provides values for both:
- - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
- - ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
- config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
- int
- config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
- int
- config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
- int
- config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
- int "Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications" if EXPERT
- range ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
- default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT if ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_DEFAULT
- default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
- depends on HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
- help
- This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
- determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
- resulting from mmap allocations for compatible applications This
- value will be bounded by the architecture's minimum and maximum
- supported values.
- This value can be changed after boot using the
- /proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
- config HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES
- bool
- help
- This allows 64bit applications to invoke 32-bit mmap() syscall
- and vice-versa 32-bit applications to call 64-bit mmap().
- Required for applications doing different bitness syscalls.
- config HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
- bool
- help
- Architecture provides copy_thread_tls to accept tls argument via
- normal C parameter passing, rather than extracting the syscall
- argument from pt_regs.
- config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
- bool
- help
- Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which
- performs compile-time stack metadata validation.
- config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
- bool
- help
- Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which
- only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable.
- config HAVE_ARCH_HASH
- bool
- default n
- help
- If this is set, the architecture provides an <asm/hash.h>
- file which provides platform-specific implementations of some
- functions in <linux/hash.h> or fs/namei.c.
- config ISA_BUS_API
- def_bool ISA
- #
- # ABI hall of shame
- #
- config CLONE_BACKWARDS
- bool
- help
- Architecture has tls passed as the 4th argument of clone(2),
- not the 5th one.
- config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
- bool
- help
- Architecture has the first two arguments of clone(2) swapped.
- config CLONE_BACKWARDS3
- bool
- help
- Architecture has tls passed as the 3rd argument of clone(2),
- not the 5th one.
- config ODD_RT_SIGACTION
- bool
- help
- Architecture has unusual rt_sigaction(2) arguments
- config OLD_SIGSUSPEND
- bool
- help
- Architecture has old sigsuspend(2) syscall, of one-argument variety
- config OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
- bool
- help
- Even weirder antique ABI - three-argument sigsuspend(2)
- config OLD_SIGACTION
- bool
- help
- Architecture has old sigaction(2) syscall. Nope, not the same
- as OLD_SIGSUSPEND | OLD_SIGSUSPEND3 - alpha has sigsuspend(2),
- but fairly different variant of sigaction(2), thanks to OSF/1
- compatibility...
- config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
- bool
- config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
- bool
- config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
- def_bool n
- config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
- def_bool n
- help
- An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
- in vmalloc space. This means:
- - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
- This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
- - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if
- vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
- needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
- unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
- most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
- are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
- - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
- should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
- instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
- config VMAP_STACK
- default y
- bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
- depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
- ---help---
- Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
- with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be
- caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
- corruption.
- This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
- the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
- that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
- config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
- def_bool n
- config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
- def_bool n
- config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
- def_bool n
- config STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
- bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
- depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
- default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
- help
- If this is set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
- and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
- protection against certain security exploits (e.g. executing the heap
- or modifying text)
- These features are considered standard security practice these days.
- You should say Y here in almost all cases.
- config ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
- def_bool n
- config STRICT_MODULE_RWX
- bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" if ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
- depends on ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX && MODULES
- default !ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX || ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX_DEFAULT
- help
- If this is set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only,
- and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This provides
- protection against certain security exploits (e.g. writing to text)
- config ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
- bool
- help
- An architecture selects this when it has implemented refcount_t
- using open coded assembly primitives that provide an optimized
- refcount_t implementation, possibly at the expense of some full
- refcount state checks of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL=y.
- The refcount overflow check behavior, however, must be retained.
- Catching overflows is the primary security concern for protecting
- against bugs in reference counts.
- config REFCOUNT_FULL
- bool "Perform full reference count validation at the expense of speed"
- help
- Enabling this switches the refcounting infrastructure from a fast
- unchecked atomic_t implementation to a fully state checked
- implementation, which can be (slightly) slower but provides protections
- against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
- security flaw exploits.
- config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
- bool
- help
- An architecture can select this if it provides an
- asm/compiler.h header that should be included after
- linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those
- headers generally provide.
- # Select if the architecture has support for applying RELR relocations.
- config ARCH_HAS_RELR
- bool
- config RELR
- bool "Use RELR relocation packing"
- depends on ARCH_HAS_RELR && TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
- default y
- help
- Store the kernel's dynamic relocations in the RELR relocation packing
- format. Requires a compatible linker (LLD supports this feature), as
- well as compatible NM and OBJCOPY utilities (llvm-nm and llvm-objcopy
- are compatible).
- source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
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