x86: Make x32 syscall support conditional on a kernel parameter
Enabling x32 in the standard amd64 kernel would increase its attack
surface while provide no benefit to the vast majority of its users.
No-one seems interested in regularly checking for vulnerabilities
specific to x32 (at least no-one with a white hat).
Still, adding another flavour just to turn on x32 seems wasteful. And
the only differences on syscall entry are two instructions (mask out
the x32 flag and compare the syscall number).
So pad the standard comparison with a nop and add a kernel parameter
"syscall.x32" which controls whether this is replaced with the x32
version at boot time. Add a Kconfig parameter to set the default.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic features/x86
Gbp-Pq: Name x86-make-x32-syscall-support-conditional.patch