[PATCH] arm64: defconfig: disable CONFIG_DEVMEM
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Fri Jan 13 03:40:32 PST 2017
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:37:34AM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> /dev/mem is the opposite of what an operating system is for.
> Additionally, on arm* it opens up for denial-of-service attacks from
> userspace. So leave it disabled by default, requiring people who need
> it to enable it explicitly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org>
Generally I'd agree that the use of /dev/mem is a bad idea (TM), so I'm
surprised we have it in our defconfig.
FWIW:
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Mark.
> ---
> arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> index 33b744d..55ba73a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ CONFIG_INPUT_HISI_POWERKEY=y
> # CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT is not set
> CONFIG_SERIO_AMBAKMI=y
> CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=16
> +# CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y
> --
> 2.10.2
>
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