On 04/07/2013 06:33 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > looks like we haven't whacked all the moles - I keep seeing this when > testing 32-bit builds in qemu on latest Linus + tip. I'd guess this is > still that /dev/mem accessing thing called wdm. > > I'm still wondering though whether we should BUG_ON on a /dev/mem > access? >
We shouldn't, no. /dev/mem really needs to be fixed along a bunch of axes. Yes, it is privileged and extra creepy, but it should either work or it should fail cleanly. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/