From ff22490d5638889df03527e8dc90f36f95985def Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Gross Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:11:26 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Update security feature information This patch updates information pertaining to userspace related security features. Some of these have been added to releases and this needs to be shown in the document. Signed-off-by: Andy Gross --- doc/security/security-overview.rst | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/security/security-overview.rst b/doc/security/security-overview.rst index d165581a39d..f50b0062071 100644 --- a/doc/security/security-overview.rst +++ b/doc/security/security-overview.rst @@ -119,8 +119,10 @@ The three major security measures currently implemented are: the near future. - **Execution Protection** including thread separation, stack and - memory protection is currently not available in the upstream - Zephyr RTOS but is planned for future releases. + memory protection is currently available in the upstream + Zephyr RTOS starting with version 1.9.0 (stack protection). Memory + protection and thread separation was added in version 1.10.0 for X86. + ARM and ARC support is targeted for version 1.11.0. These topics are discussed in more detail in the following subsections. @@ -149,7 +151,7 @@ Zephyr kernel and all applications are compiled into a single static binary. System calls are implemented as function calls without requiring context switches. Static linking eliminates the potential for dynamically loading malicious code. Memory protection and task -separation techniques are in scope for future releases. +separation techniques are in scope starting with version 1.10.0. Quality Assurance =================