Distros have been shipping with CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y for years now. It is probably time to flip this default for x86 and arm64.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 947d3e2ed5c2..39b123d04a36 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1985,7 +1985,7 @@ config STRICT_DEVMEM bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" depends on MMU && DEVMEM depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED - default y if TILE || PPC + default y if TILE || PPC || X86 || ARM64 ---help--- If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental -- 2.7.4 -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
