On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:34:07AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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.
Can't we filter out accesses through /dev/mem and not BUG_ON in __phys_addr() if they come through /dev/mem? Simply fail cleanly. No idea whether we'll break something still reading /dev/mem though. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- 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/