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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig.debug12
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init_32.c19
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init_64.c20
3 files changed, 51 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index 610aaecc19f..0c1890c4127 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
+config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM
+ bool "Disable promiscuous /dev/mem"
+ default y
+ help
+ The /dev/mem file by default only allows userspace access to PCI
+ space and the BIOS code and data regions. This is sufficient for
+ dosemu and X and all common users of /dev/mem. With this config
+ option, you allow userspace access to all of memory, including
+ kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is
+ obviously disasterous, but specific access can be used by people
+ debugging the kernel.
+
config EARLY_PRINTK
bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
default y
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
index 9ec62da85fd..39852d53901 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -227,6 +227,25 @@ static inline int page_kills_ppro(unsigned long pagenr)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * devmem_is_allowed() checks to see if /dev/mem access to a certain address
+ * is valid. The argument is a physical page number.
+ *
+ *
+ * On x86, access has to be given to the first megabyte of ram because that area
+ * contains bios code and data regions used by X and dosemu and similar apps.
+ * Access has to be given to non-kernel-ram areas as well, these contain the PCI
+ * mmio resources as well as potential bios/acpi data regions.
+ */
+int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pagenr)
+{
+ if (pagenr <= 256)
+ return 1;
+ if (!page_is_ram(pagenr))
+ return 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
pte_t *kmap_pte;
pgprot_t kmap_prot;
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 1ff7906a9a4..49c274ee2fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -664,6 +664,26 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memory_add_physaddr_to_nid);
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
+/*
+ * devmem_is_allowed() checks to see if /dev/mem access to a certain address
+ * is valid. The argument is a physical page number.
+ *
+ *
+ * On x86, access has to be given to the first megabyte of ram because that area
+ * contains bios code and data regions used by X and dosemu and similar apps.
+ * Access has to be given to non-kernel-ram areas as well, these contain the PCI
+ * mmio resources as well as potential bios/acpi data regions.
+ */
+int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pagenr)
+{
+ if (pagenr <= 256)
+ return 1;
+ if (!page_is_ram(pagenr))
+ return 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+
static struct kcore_list kcore_mem, kcore_vmalloc, kcore_kernel,
kcore_modules, kcore_vsyscall;