[PATCH] x86/64: Add CONFIG_DEVMEM=y for targets/x86/64

[Supriya Shekhar Mane]

Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> writes:

Dear Maintainers,

> Unless there is a good reason to have this enabled, it should stay
> disabled in official builds and "but Debian has it enabled" is not
> valid argument either.

Now that it's being decided that macro
CONFIG_DEVMEM shall not be enabled by default, why can't bug ID FS#3461
be closed?

Regards,
Supriya Mane


On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:24 PM Supriya Shekhar Mane
<sm.supriya at globaledgesoft.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Petr,
>
> As CONFIG_DEVMEM shall not be enabled by default, then this ticket can be moved to closure.
> Please suggest the closing procedure.
>
> Regards,
> Supriya Mane
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 8:39 PM Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> [2021-02-14 10:33:15]:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > And it's already enabled for the ipq807x and rockchip targets, so you can't
>> > really claim that it's not available in OpenWrt either.
>>
>> thanks to bringing this to my attention, but I tend to believe, that this is
>> not intentional.
>>
>> > I do hope you don't think OpenWrt is somehow more secure than a current
>> > Debian installation because you arbitrarily remove kernel features like
>> > this one?
>>
>> Unless there is a good reason to have this enabled, it should stay disabled in
>> official builds and "but Debian has it enabled" is not valid argument either.
>>
>> > The security issues in OpenWrt are caused by almost every process running as
>> > root.
>>
>> Thanks to Daniel, this is getting reduced like dnsmasq, logd, ntp, ubus to
>> name a few.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Petr
>>
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