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@@ -1667,6 +1667,21 @@ config HIGHPTE
bool "Allocate 2nd-level pagetables from highmem"
depends on HIGHMEM
+config CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN
+ bool "Enable use of CPU domains to implement privileged no-access"
+ depends on MMU && !ARM_LPAE
+ default y
+ help
+ Increase kernel security by ensuring that normal kernel accesses
+ are unable to access userspace addresses. This can help prevent
+ use-after-free bugs becoming an exploitable privilege escalation
+ by ensuring that magic values (such as LIST_POISON) will always
+ fault when dereferenced.
+
+ CPUs with low-vector mappings use a best-efforts implementation.
+ Their lower 1MB needs to remain accessible for the vectors, but
+ the remainder of userspace will become appropriately inaccessible.
+
config HW_PERF_EVENTS
bool "Enable hardware performance counter support for perf events"
depends on PERF_EVENTS