From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: devzero@web.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce /dev/mem restrictions with a config option
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:41:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080131064128.58c516da@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <137932353@web.de>
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:04:28 +0100
devzero@web.de wrote:
> nice !
>
> did you think about some boot-time param , e.g. "insecure-devmem" or
> something like that?
>
> recompiling kernel is time consuming.....
given that this has been in fedora/rhel for 5 years with no complaints...
it's extremely rare, and if you are someone who's going to use it to do some weird
form of kernel debugging, you already know that way ahead of time, when you
compile your kernel.
(Note: I don't know of any tools that do kernel debugging this way. At all)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 14:04 devzero
2008-01-31 14:41 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-30 20:48 Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-31 16:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-31 17:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-31 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-31 22:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-01-31 22:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
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