On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 12:31:38AM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> Yea, I was thinking to maybe just change it to
> CONFIG_X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK in show_smap_vma_flags(). In that function
> there is already CONFIG_ARM64_BTI and CONFIG_ARM64_MTE.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. :-)
> I'm not sure if there is any aversion to having arch CONFIGs in core
> code, but it's kind of nice to have all of the potentially conflicting
> strings in once place.
Yeah, ok.
I guess you can do the CONFIG_X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK thing for the sake
of simplicity. We have *waaay* too many Kconfig symbols and we should
introduce only the least amount of new ones.
Thx.
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