On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Larry reports: "My PowerBook G4 Aluminum with a 32-bit PPC processor >>> fails to boot for the 4.4-git series". This is likely due to X still >>> needing /dev/mem access on this platform. >>> >>> CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM is not yet safe to turn on when >>> CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y. Remove the default so that old configurations >>> do not change behavior. >>> >>> Fixes: 90a545e98126 ("restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges") >>> Reported-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]> >>> Tested-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]> >>> Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145332012023825&w=2 >>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> >>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> >>> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> >>> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> >>> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> >>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> >>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]> >> >> Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> >> > > Thanks! > >> This should probably be CC: stable, yes? > > No, this breakage is new for the current merge window.
Ah! Okay, I misunderstood the "4.4" comment. Should that be 4.5-git? -- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security
