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Walleij: New ARM32 Security Features in v6.10
Wednesday December 4, 2024. 05:02 PM , from LWN.net
Linus Walleij writes
about a pair of security features for 32-bit Arm systems; these landed in 6.10, but, he says, have now stabilized to the point that distributors may want to enable them. PAN is an abbreviation for the somewhat grammatically incorrect Privileged Access Never. For modern ARM32 systems with large memories configured to use LPAE nothing like PAN was available: this version of the MMU simply did not implement a PAN option. As of the patch originally developed by Catalin Marinas, we deploy a scheme that will use the fact that LPAE has two separate translation table base registers (TTBR:s): one for userspace (TTBR0) and one for kernelspace (TTBR1).
https://lwn.net/Articles/1000727/
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