arm64: Kconfig: Reword UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 kconfig entry
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:19:39 +0000 (16:19 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Mon, 8 Jan 2018 18:43:33 +0000 (18:43 +0000)
commit0617052ddde355ee663b2f048e67dd381e5ebd6a
tree4797bee1203ae87241f138a43396a90a73a27102
parentbe04a6d1126b02c6a28741155b899d648739fc5b
arm64: Kconfig: Reword UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 kconfig entry

Although CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 does make KASLR more robust, it's
actually more useful as a mitigation against speculation attacks that
can leak arbitrary kernel data to userspace through speculation.

Reword the Kconfig help message to reflect this, and make the option
depend on EXPERT so that it is on by default for the majority of users.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/Kconfig