[PATCH 1/5] lib: Add a generic version of devmem_is_allowed()

[Nick Kossifidis]

Στις 2020-07-10 08:38, Christoph Hellwig έγραψε:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:49:21PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>> > +#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
>> > +extern int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn);
>> > +#endif
> 
> Nit: no need for the extern here.
> 
>> > +config GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
>> > +	bool
>> > +	select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
>> 
>> This seems to work the other way around from the usual Kconfig chains.
>> In the most cases ARCH_HAS_SOMETHING selects GENERIC_SOMETHING.
>> 
>> I believe nicer way would be to make
>> 
>> config STRICT_DEVMEM
>> 	bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
>> 	depends on MMU && DEVMEM
>> 	depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || 
>> GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
>> 
>> config GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
>> 	bool
>> 
>> and then s/select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED/select 
>> GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED/
>> in the arch Kconfigs and drop ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED in the end.
> 
> To take a step back:  Is there any reason to not just always
> STRICT_DEVMEM? Maybe for a few architectures that don't currently
> support a strict /dev/mem the generic version isn't quite correct, but
> someone selecting the option and finding the issue is the best way to
> figure that out..
> 

During prototyping / testing having full access to all physical memory 
through /dev/mem is very useful. We should have it enabled by default 
but leave the config option there so that users / developers can disable 
it if needed IMHO.