From a11e097504ac1889b35b6858f495565838325f88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolay Borisov Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:14:09 +0300 Subject: x86: Make IA32_EMULATION boot time configurable Distributions would like to reduce their attack surface as much as possible but at the same time they'd want to retain flexibility to cater to a variety of legacy software. This stems from the conjecture that compat layer is likely rarely tested and could have latent security bugs. Ideally distributions will set their default policy and also give users the ability to override it as appropriate. To enable this use case, introduce CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED compile time option, which controls whether 32bit processes/syscalls should be allowed or not. This option is aimed mainly at distributions to set their preferred default behavior in their kernels. To allow users to override the distro's policy, introduce the 'ia32_emulation' parameter which allows overriding CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED state at boot time. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623111409.3047467-7-nik.borisov@suse.com --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 0a1731a0f0ef..45e34be4ed56 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1893,6 +1893,12 @@ 0 -- machine default 1 -- force brightness inversion + ia32_emulation= [X86-64] + Format: + When true, allows loading 32-bit programs and executing 32-bit + syscalls, essentially overriding IA32_EMULATION_DEFAULT_DISABLED at + boot time. When false, unconditionally disables IA32 emulation. + icn= [HW,ISDN] Format: [,[,[,]]] -- cgit v1.2.3