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authorAlexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>2018-08-17 01:17:03 +0300
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2018-09-04 10:35:48 -0700
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stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing
Introduce CONFIG_STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE option, which provides 'stack_erasing' sysctl. It can be used in runtime to control kernel stack erasing for kernels built with CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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-rw-r--r--scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
index b0a015ef5268..0d5c799688f0 100644
--- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
+++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
@@ -182,4 +182,12 @@ config STACKLEAK_METRICS
can be useful for estimating the STACKLEAK performance impact for
your workloads.
+config STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE
+ bool "Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing"
+ depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK
+ help
+ This option provides 'stack_erasing' sysctl, which can be used in
+ runtime to control kernel stack erasing for kernels built with
+ CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK.
+
endif