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Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r-- | security/Kconfig | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig index 5dfc206748cf..49b51f964897 100644 --- a/security/Kconfig +++ b/security/Kconfig @@ -113,10 +113,12 @@ config SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. - For most users with lots of address space a value of 65536 is - reasonable and should cause no problems. Programs which use vm86 - functionality would either need additional permissions from either - the LSM or the capabilities module or have this protection disabled. + 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. |