Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> --- security/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig index 213df4d4f2c1527a..1bb0c5bc9caadf8c 100644 --- a/security/Kconfig +++ b/security/Kconfig @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ config HARDENED_USERCOPY copying memory to/from the kernel (via copy_to_user() and copy_from_user() functions) by rejecting memory ranges that are larger than the specified heap object, span multiple - separately allocates pages, are not on the process stack, + separately allocated pages, are not on the process stack, or are part of the kernel text. This kills entire classes of heap overflow exploits and similar kernel memory exposures. -- 2.7.4