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arm64: Add missing Kconfig for CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM

Message ID 1396657850-14252-1-git-send-email-lauraa@codeaurora.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Laura Abbott April 5, 2014, 12:30 a.m. UTC 
The Kconfig for CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is missing despite being
used in mmap.c. Add it.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
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 arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

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Catalin Marinas April 7, 2014, 4:35 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 01:30:50AM +0100, Laura Abbott wrote:
> The Kconfig for CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is missing despite being
> used in mmap.c. Add it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>

Thanks. Applied.
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
index 835c559..4be4336 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
@@ -6,6 +6,20 @@  config FRAME_POINTER
 	bool
 	default y
 
+config STRICT_DEVMEM
+	bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
+	depends on MMU
+        help
+	  If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
+	  of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
+	  access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
+	  be used by people debugging the kernel.
+
+	  If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
+	  userspace access to memory mapped peripherals.
+
+	  If in doubt, say Y.
+
 config EARLY_PRINTK
 	bool "Early printk support"
 	default y