Merge pull request #28803 from ijc25/check-config-legacy-vsyscall

check-config check for LEGACY_VSYSCALL_* options

contrib/check-config.sh

@@ -222,6 +222,23 @@ echo 'Optional Features:'
 		echo "    $(wrap_color '(note that cgroup swap accounting is not enabled in your kernel config, you can enable it by setting boot option "swapaccount=1")' bold black)"
 	fi
 }
+{
+	if is_set LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NATIVE; then
+		echo -n "- "; wrap_good "CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NATIVE" 'enabled'
+	elif is_set LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE; then
+		echo -n "- "; wrap_good "CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE" 'enabled'
+	elif is_set LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE; then
+		echo -n "- "; wrap_bad "CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE" 'enabled'
+		echo "    $(wrap_color '(containers using eglibc <= 2.13 will not work. Switch to' bold black)"
+		echo "    $(wrap_color ' "CONFIG_VSYSCALL_[NATIVE|EMULATE]" or use "vsyscall=[native|emulate]"' bold black)"
+		echo "    $(wrap_color ' on kernel command line. Note that this will disable ASLR for the,' bold black)"
+		echo "    $(wrap_color ' VDSO which may assist in exploiting security vulnerabilities.)' bold black)"
+	# else Older kernels (prior to 3dc33bd30f3e, released in v4.40-rc1) do
+	#      not have these LEGACY_VSYSCALL options and are effectively
+	#      LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE. Even older kernels are presumably
+	#      effectively LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NATIVE.
+	fi
+}
 
 if [ "$kernelMajor" -lt 4 ] || [ "$kernelMajor" -eq 4 -a "$kernelMinor" -le 5 ]; then
 	check_flags MEMCG_KMEM