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David Hildenbrand bbcd53c960 drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good 
Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good".

Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem.

Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be
able to deal with things like

a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem)
  -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient.

b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched
  -> mem_pfn_is_ram()

Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might
fault/crash the machine.

Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1],
after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion.

CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by
mistake?).  All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled
for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least
starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from
15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well.

1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled
   basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of
   /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.".
   RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to
   serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers
   to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching"

2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read
   kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to
   deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned
   pages, though)

3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a
   better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot
   yourself into the foot.

4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems
   to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes,
   /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older
   kernels can be used.

5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there.

Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better
suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's
just remove it.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
[2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled
[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
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Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
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Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" <pavel@denx.de>
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Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
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Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-07 00:26:34 -07:00

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CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y
CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_MEMCG=y
CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER=y
CONFIG_CGROUP_DEVICE=y
CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y
CONFIG_CGROUP_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y
CONFIG_RELAY=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_EXPERT=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y
CONFIG_PROFILING=y
CONFIG_XTENSA_VARIANT_DC233C=y
CONFIG_XTENSA_UNALIGNED_USER=y
CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_XIP_DATA_ADDR=0xd0000000
CONFIG_KERNEL_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS=0xe6000000
CONFIG_KERNEL_LOAD_ADDRESS=0xf6000000
CONFIG_XTENSA_KSEG_512M=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_XTENSA_PLATFORM_XTFPGA=y
CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y
CONFIG_CMDLINE="earlycon=uart8250,mmio32native,0xfd050020,115200n8 console=ttyS0,115200n8 ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs rw debug memmap=0x38000000@0"
CONFIG_USE_OF=y
CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB_SOURCE="kc705"
# CONFIG_PARSE_BOOTPARAM is not set
# CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is not set
# CONFIG_COMPACTION is not set
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y
# CONFIG_IPV6 is not set
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
# CONFIG_WIRELESS is not set
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=y
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
# CONFIG_STANDALONE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_ARC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_AURORA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_BROADCOM is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_INTEL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MARVELL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MICREL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NATSEMI is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SAMSUNG is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SEEQ is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMSC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_STMICRO is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_VIA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_WIZNET is not set
CONFIG_MARVELL_PHY=y
# CONFIG_WLAN is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DEPRECATED_OPTIONS is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM=y
# CONFIG_HWMON is not set
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT=y
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=y
# CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set
# CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT is not set
# CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_FANOTIFY=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V4=y
CONFIG_NFS_SWAP=y
CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECHAINIV=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZO=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG=y
CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK=y
# CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_STACKTRACE=y
CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y
# CONFIG_FTRACE is not set
# CONFIG_S32C1I_SELFTEST is not set
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