* [PATCH 4.19 66/91] Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentation
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@ 2019-07-12 12:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2019-07-12 12:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, stable, Andy Lutomirski, Thomas Gleixner,
Kees Cook, Florian Weimer, Jann Horn, Borislav Petkov,
Kernel Hardening, Peter Zijlstra
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
commit d974ffcfb7447db5f29a4b662a3eaf99a4e1109e upstream.
The vsyscall=native feature is gone -- remove the docs.
Fixes: 076ca272a14c ("x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d77c7105eb4c57c1a95a95b6a5b8ba194a18e764.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4976,12 +4976,6 @@
emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
emulated reasonably safely.
- native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
- This is a little bit faster than trapping
- and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
- better than they would in emulation mode.
- It also makes exploits much easier to write.
-
none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
them quite hard to use for exploits but
might break your system.
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