Messages in this thread | | | From | James Troup <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good | Date | Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:55:31 +0000 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:35 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> Let's start a discussion if /dev/kmem is worth keeping around and >> fixing/maintaining or if we should just remove it now for good. > > I'll happily do this for the next merge window, but would really want > distros to confirm that they don't enable it.
FWIW, it's been disabled in Ubuntu for over 10 years now:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled
-- James
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