From patchwork Fri Jul 12 12:19:29 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Greg KH X-Patchwork-Id: 11042221 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF984138B for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF7827CAF for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:30:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id D0F4D28C03; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:30:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mother.openwall.net (mother.openwall.net [195.42.179.200]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F004327CAF for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:30:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1304 invoked by uid 550); 12 Jul 2019 12:30:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact kernel-hardening-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Delivered-To: mailing list kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 1279 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2019 12:30:05 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1562934593; bh=xxRtUTDCKhzXdeTgs0S5YKCWNASaZOqK2PANmHf8px8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=GSODTSO+wG8kk636QnZzDojug75nlV/NTVjRMMyRJbFNp6Vty4AVuAS/6dpIIpj9T D0g1fhwYLrxBHw+2BKF0frlNgDOr5oc69THZGwLn1udyZsLeHIhgwb0d3H/E3FncHN QW6KooajjVYmPTbkwE2UZYliqNM86pJOogpB++LM= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski , Thomas Gleixner , Kees Cook , Florian Weimer , Jann Horn , Borislav Petkov , Kernel Hardening , Peter Zijlstra Subject: [PATCH 5.1 105/138] Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentation Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:19:29 +0200 Message-Id: <20190712121632.793176749@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.22.0 In-Reply-To: <20190712121628.731888964@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20190712121628.731888964@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP From: Andy Lutomirski 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 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Florian Weimer Cc: Jann Horn Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Kernel Hardening Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d77c7105eb4c57c1a95a95b6a5b8ba194a18e764.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 @@ -5074,12 +5074,6 @@ 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.