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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ppc/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ppc/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ppc/Kconfig b/arch/ppc/Kconfig index 600f23d7fd3..cd752a3cf3b 100644 --- a/arch/ppc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/ppc/Kconfig @@ -1083,6 +1083,23 @@ source "drivers/zorro/Kconfig" source kernel/power/Kconfig +config SECCOMP + bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode" + depends on PROC_FS + default y + help + This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications + that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their + execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to + the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write + syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in + their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is + enabled via /proc/<pid>/seccomp, it cannot be disabled + and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls + defined by each seccomp mode. + + If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. + endmenu config ISA_DMA_API |