arch: consolidate CONFIG_STRICT_DEVM in lib/Kconfig.debug

Let all the archs that implement devmem_is_allowed() opt-in to a common
definition of CONFIG_STRICT_DEVM in lib/Kconfig.debug.

Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
[heiko: drop 'default y' for s390]
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Dan Williams
2015-11-19 18:19:29 -08:00
parent 9f9499ae8e
commit 21266be9ed
16 changed files with 31 additions and 86 deletions

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@@ -15,20 +15,6 @@ config ARM_PTDUMP
kernel.
If in doubt, say "N"
config STRICT_DEVMEM
bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
depends on MMU
---help---
If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
be used by people debugging the kernel.
If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
userspace access to memory mapped peripherals.
If in doubt, say Y.
# RMK wants arm kernels compiled with frame pointers or stack unwinding.
# If you know what you are doing and are willing to live without stack
# traces, you can get a slightly smaller kernel by setting this option to