X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=security%2FKconfig;h=62ed4717d334f3f10de514aa4b9e088f4b2ca827;hb=64fd52a52077d3cd5a778ca031c0aaecf885eaa6;hp=5dfc206748cfbd76f2e1f3114515aba7294cf67c;hpb=a8e98d6d51a3eb7bb061b1625193a129c8bd094f;p=linux-2.6 diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig index 5dfc206748..62ed4717d3 100644 --- a/security/Kconfig +++ b/security/Kconfig @@ -73,17 +73,9 @@ config SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM IPSec. If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. -config SECURITY_CAPABILITIES - bool "Default Linux Capabilities" - depends on SECURITY - default y - help - This enables the "default" Linux capabilities functionality. - If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y. - config SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES bool "File POSIX Capabilities (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on (SECURITY=n || SECURITY_CAPABILITIES!=n) && EXPERIMENTAL + depends on EXPERIMENTAL default n help This enables filesystem capabilities, allowing you to give @@ -113,10 +105,12 @@ config SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs. - For most users with lots of address space a value of 65536 is - reasonable and should cause no problems. Programs which use vm86 - functionality would either need additional permissions from either - the LSM or the capabilities module or have this protection disabled. + For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space + a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. + On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. + Programs which use vm86 functionality would either need additional + permissions from either the LSM or the capabilities module or have + this protection disabled. This value can be changed after boot using the /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.