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| author | Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> | 2021-12-30 18:19:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2022-01-03 15:56:53 -0700 |
| commit | 82ca67321f55a8d1da6ac3ed611da3c32818bb37 (patch) | |
| tree | 04b15fb5d86a7abaecf73ec8889cd3dae3b99ec1 | |
| parent | e765c747d11012adcf743406c4aa4011afc2893b (diff) | |
Documentation: refer to config RANDOMIZE_BASE for kernel address-space randomization
The config RANDOMIZE_SLAB does not exist, the authors probably intended to
refer to the config RANDOMIZE_BASE, which provides kernel address-space
randomization. They probably just confused SLAB with BASE (these two
four-letter words coincidentally share three common letters), as they also
point out the config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM as further randomization within
the same sentence.
Fix the reference of the config for kernel address-space randomization to
the config that provides that.
Fixes: 6e88559470f5 ("Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211230171940.27558-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst index ab7d402c1677..a2b22d5640ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ Spectre variant 2 before invoking any firmware code to prevent Spectre variant 2 exploits using the firmware. - Using kernel address space randomization (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_SLAB=y + Using kernel address space randomization (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y and CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM=y in the kernel configuration) makes attacks on the kernel generally more difficult. |