[PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: Kconfig: drop KAISER reference from KPTI option description
Ard Biesheuvel
ardb at google.com
Mon Nov 27 04:00:53 PST 2023
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
KAISER is a reference to the KASLR hardening technique that already
existed before Meltdown happened, and by now, it is sufficiently obscure
that mentioning it does not actually clarify anything. So remove this
reference, and replace it with KPTI.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 7b071a00425d..b67e6934316f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
Don't change if unsure.
config UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
- bool "Unmap kernel when running in userspace (aka \"KAISER\")" if EXPERT
+ bool "Unmap kernel when running in userspace (KPTI)" if EXPERT
default y
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