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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix devmem_is_allowed for below 1MB accesses for an efi machine
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:44:16PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> We *always* expose the I/O regions to /dev/mem. That is what /dev/mem
> *does*. The above is an exception (which is really obsolete, too: we
> should simply disallow access to anything which is treated as system
> RAM, which doesn't include the BIOS regions in question; the only reason
> we don't is that some versions of X take a checksum of the RAM in the
> first megabyte as some kind of idiotic random seed.)

Oh, right, got you. In that case I think we potentially need a
finer-grained check on EFI platforms - the EFI memory map is kind enough
to tell us the difference between unusable regions and io regions, and
we could avoid access to the unusable ones.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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