[PATCH] arm64: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL

From	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] arm64: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL
Date	2017-09-20 23:00 +0200
Message-ID	<urUgb-855-45@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

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As discussed at the Linux Security Summit, arm64 prefers to use
REFCOUNT_FULL by default. This enables it for the architecture.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: hw.likun@huawei.com
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 0df64a6a56d4..9fe7a7f4c94c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select PCI_ECAM if ACPI
 	select POWER_RESET
 	select POWER_SUPPLY
+	select REFCOUNT_FULL
 	select SPARSE_IRQ
 	select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
 	select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
-- 
2.7.4


-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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[PATCH] arm64: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-09-20 23:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] arm64: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2017-09-21 00:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] arm64: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-09-21 19:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] arm64: Always use REFCOUNT_FULL Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-09-21 20:00 +0200

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