[PATCH RFC 3/4] kernel/resource: Make ioport_resource.start configurable

John Garry john.garry at huawei.com
Fri Jan 15 11:58:48 EST 2021


Make IO space base address to be configurable through IO_SPACE_BASE.

This will allow architectures which do not natively support IO ports -
like arm64 - to harden against legacy ISA-based drivers which use
hardcoded addresses to access IO ports.

Any attempts for these drivers to request a resource region will now fail
for architectures with set IO_SPACE_BASE above legacy ISA IO port region
(0xffff).

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry at huawei.com>
---
 kernel/resource.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 3ae2f56cc79d..d191c4d796c7 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 struct resource ioport_resource = {
 	.name	= "PCI IO",
-	.start	= 0,
+	.start	= IO_SPACE_BASE,
 	.end	= IO_SPACE_LIMIT,
 	.flags	= IORESOURCE_IO,
 };
-- 
2.26.2




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