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Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good".
Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem.
Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be
able to deal with things like
a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem)
-> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient.
b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched
-> mem_pfn_is_ram()
Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might
fault/crash the machine.
Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1],
after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion.
CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by
mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled
for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least
starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from
15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well.
1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled
basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of
/dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.".
RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to
serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers
to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching"
2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read
kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to
deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned
pages, though)
3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a
better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot
yourself into the foot.
4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems
to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes,
/proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older
kernels can be used.
5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there.
Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better
suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's
just remove it.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
[2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled
[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: James Troup <james.troup@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Theodore Dubois <tblodt@icloud.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove the CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH because:
1. It is disabled since commit 1be01d4a5714 ("driver: base: Disable
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default") as its dependency (UEVENT_HELPER) was
made default to 'n',
2. It is not recommended (help message: "This should not be used today
[...] creates a high system load") and was kept only for ancient
userland,
3. Certain userland specifically requests it to be disabled (systemd
README: "Legacy hotplug slows down the system and confuses udev").
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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Remove old, dead Kconfig options (in order appearing in this commit):
- EXPERIMENTAL is gone since v3.9;
- INET_LRO: commit 7bbf3cae65b6 ("ipv4: Remove inet_lro library");
- MTD_CONCAT: commit f53fdebcc3e1 ("mtd: drop MTD_CONCAT from Kconfig entirely");
- MTD_PARTITIONS: commit 6a8a98b22b10 ("mtd: kill CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS");
- MTD_CHAR: commit 660685d9d1b4 ("mtd: merge mtdchar module with mtdcore");
- NETDEV_1000 and NETDEV_10000: commit f860b0522f65 ("drivers/net:
Kconfig and Makefile cleanup"); NET_ETHERNET should be replaced with
just ETHERNET but that is separate change;
- INOTIFY: commit 2dfc1cae4c42 ("inotify: remove inotify in kernel interface");
- MISC_DEVICES: commit 7c5763b8453a ("drivers: misc: Remove
MISC_DEVICES config option");
- HID_SUPPORT: commit 1f41a6a99476 ("HID: Fix the generic Kconfig options");
- BT_L2CAP and BT_SCO: commit f1e91e1640d8 ("Bluetooth: Always compile
SCO and L2CAP in Bluetooth Core");
- DEBUG_ERRORS: commit b025a3f836d1 ("ARM: 6876/1: Kconfig.debug:
Remove unused CONFIG_DEBUG_ERRORS");
- USB_DEVICE_CLASS: commit 007bab91324e ("USB: remove CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS");
- RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR: commit a00e0d714fbd ("rcu: Remove conditional
compilation for RCU CPU stall warnings");
- SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK: commit 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the
sysctl sanity checks");
- IP_NF_QUEUE: commit 3dd6664fac7e ("netfilter: remove unused "config IP_NF_QUEUE"");
- IP_NF_TARGET_ULOG: commit d4da843e6fad ("netfilter: kill remnants of ulog targets");
- IP6_NF_QUEUE: commit d16cf20e2f2f ("netfilter: remove ip_queue support");
- IP6_NF_TARGET_LOG: commit 6939c33a757b ("netfilter: merge ipt_LOG and
ip6_LOG into xt_LOG");
- USB_LED: commit a335aaf3125c ("usb: misc: remove outdated USB LED driver");
- MMC_UNSAFE_RESUME: commit 2501c9179dff ("mmc: core: Use
MMC_UNSAFE_RESUME as default behavior");
- AUTOFS_FS: commit 561c5cf9236a ("staging: Remove autofs3");
- DISPLAY_SUPPORT: commit 5a6b5e02d673 ("fbdev: remove display subsystem");
- CFG80211_REG_DEBUG: commit c799ba6eab7a ("cfg80211: remove
CFG80211_REG_DEBUG");
- VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL: commit f167a64e9d67 ("video / output: Drop
display output class support");
- USB_LIBUSUAL: commit f61870ee6f8c ("usb: remove libusual");
- CRYPTO_ZLIB: commit 110492183c4b ("crypto: compress - remove unused
pcomp interface");
- BLK_DEV_UB: commit 68a5059ecf82 ("block: remove the deprecated ub driver");
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
[for vexpress]
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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RTC_CLASS is changed to bool, so 'm' is invalid.
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
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26-bit ARM support was removed a long time ago, and this symbol has
been defined to be 'y' ever since. As it's never disabled anymore,
we can kill it without any side effects.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Matej Kenda <matej.kenda@i-tech.si>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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