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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-11-19 18:19:29 -0800
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-01-09 06:30:49 -0800
commit21266be9ed542f13436bd9c75316d43e1e84f6ae (patch)
treecc956d5321e1a9fde60b0e596b5e1d981cbe2409 /arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
parent9f9499ae8e6415cefc4fe0a96ad0e27864353c89 (diff)
downloadlinux-21266be9ed542f13436bd9c75316d43e1e84f6ae.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug14
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
index 04fb73b973f1..e13c4bf84d9e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug
@@ -14,20 +14,6 @@ config ARM64_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.
-
 config PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR
 	bool "Write the current PID to the CONTEXTIDR register"
 	help