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@@ -113,10 +113,12 @@ config SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
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from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages
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can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
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- For most users with lots of address space a value of 65536 is
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- reasonable and should cause no problems. Programs which use vm86
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- functionality would either need additional permissions from either
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- the LSM or the capabilities module or have this protection disabled.
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+ For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space
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+ a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems.
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+ On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768.
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+ Programs which use vm86 functionality would either need additional
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+ permissions from either the LSM or the capabilities module or have
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+ this protection disabled.
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This value can be changed after boot using the
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/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
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