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Re: [PATCH] fix CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM, do not enable by default

From Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] fix CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM, do not enable by default
Date 2016-01-21 00:50 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>> Larry reports: "My PowerBook G4 Aluminum with a 32-bit PPC processor
>> fails to boot for the 4.4-git series".  This is likely due to X still
>> needing /dev/mem access on this platform.
>>
>> CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM is not yet safe to turn on when
>> CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y.  Remove the default so that old configurations
>> do not change behavior.
>>
>> Fixes: 90a545e98126 ("restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges")
>> Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
>> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
>> Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145332012023825&w=2
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>

Thanks!

> This should probably be CC: stable, yes?

No, this breakage is new for the current merge window.

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[PATCH] fix CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM, do not enable by default Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-20 23:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] fix CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM, do not enable by default Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-01-21 00:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] fix CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM, do not enable by default Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-21 00:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] fix CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM, do not enable by default Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-01-21 01:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] fix CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM, do not enable by default Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-01-21 01:00 +0100

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