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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 0bd9c2dbb2a0..07b4ec477103 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -208,3 +208,21 @@ config VIRT_TO_BUS config MMU_NOTIFIER bool + +config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR + int "Low address space to protect from user allocation" + default 4096 + help + This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected + from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages + can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. + + For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space + a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. + On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. + Programs which use vm86 functionality would either need additional + permissions from either the LSM or the capabilities module or have + this protection disabled. + + This value can be changed after boot using the + /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. |