Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:33:16 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | [GIT PULL] hardened-usercopy updates for v4.19-rc1 |
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Hi Linus,
Please pull these hardened-usercopy changes for v4.19-rc1. This cleans up a minor Kconfig issue and adds a kernel boot option for disabling hardened usercopy for distro users that may have corner-case performance issues (e.g. high bandwidth small-packet UDP traffic).
Thanks!
-Kees
The following changes since commit 7daf201d7fe8334e2d2364d4e8ed3394ec9af819:
Linux 4.18-rc2 (2018-06-24 20:54:29 +0800)
are available in the Git repository at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/hardened-usercopy-v4.19-rc1
for you to fetch changes up to b5cb15d9372abc9adc4e844c0c1bf594ca6a7695:
usercopy: Allow boot cmdline disabling of hardening (2018-07-04 08:04:52 -0700)
---------------------------------------------------------------- - drop unneeded Kconfig "select BUG" (Kamal Mostafa) - add "hardened_usercopy=off" rare performance needs (Chris von Recklinghausen)
---------------------------------------------------------------- Chris von Recklinghausen (1): usercopy: Allow boot cmdline disabling of hardening
Kamal Mostafa (1): usercopy: Do not select BUG with HARDENED_USERCOPY
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 +++++++++++ include/linux/jump_label.h | 6 ++++++ mm/usercopy.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ security/Kconfig | 1 - 4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-- Kees Cook Pixel Security
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