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author | Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org> | 2020-08-04 17:00:01 -0500 |
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committer | Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org> | 2020-08-04 17:00:01 -0500 |
commit | 9ab9ea2db0b13375d3d7114d5c82eb298a118740 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/configs/fedora/generic/CONFIG_ARM64_BTI b/configs/fedora/generic/CONFIG_ARM64_BTI new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5af4d535b --- /dev/null +++ b/configs/fedora/generic/CONFIG_ARM64_BTI @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# CONFIG_ARM64_BTI: +# +# Branch Target Identification (part of the ARMv8.5 Extensions) +# provides a mechanism to limit the set of locations to which computed +# branch instructions such as BR or BLR can jump. +# +# To make use of BTI on CPUs that support it, say Y. +# +# BTI is intended to provide complementary protection to other control +# flow integrity protection mechanisms, such as the Pointer +# authentication mechanism provided as part of the ARMv8.3 Extensions. +# For this reason, it does not make sense to enable this option without +# also enabling support for pointer authentication. Thus, when +# enabling this option you should also select ARM64_PTR_AUTH=y. +# +# Userspace binaries must also be specifically compiled to make use of +# this mechanism. If you say N here or the hardware does not support +# BTI, such binaries can still run, but you get no additional +# enforcement of branch destinations. +# +# Symbol: ARM64_BTI [=y] +# Type : bool +# Defined at arch/arm64/Kconfig:1594 +# Prompt: Branch Target Identification support +# Location: +# -> Kernel Features +# -> ARMv8.5 architectural features +# +# +# +CONFIG_ARM64_BTI=y |