On 07/11/2014 06:33 AM, Daniel Thompson wrote: > This patchset implements restricted modes for the KDB debugger. It is a > continuation of previous work of Anton Vorontsov. There are no > outstanding review comments for this patchset. > > It provides a means for the root user to choose the set of kdb commands > that are available on the kdb console. It is implemented similarly to > the existing code to mask the available magic SysRq commands with modes > for disable-all (0), enable-all(1) and a bitmask to enable/disable > groups of functionality. > > The implementation of the mask check includes a feature to allow a > command to change which group it belongs to based on whether or not the > command has arguments (for example, go without arguments is a very safe > command whilst go with an argument allows arbitrary changes to the > program counter). > > There are a few patches, some are just cleanups, some are churn-ish > cleanups, but inevitable. And the rest implements the mode -- after all > the preparations, everything is pretty straightforward.
I plan to take one more walk through the code and aim to get this merged for the upcoming merge window. :-) Cheers, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
