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Bug#512733: marked as done (linux-2.6: enabling STRICT_DEVMEM)

Your message dated Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:02:58 +0200
with message-id <20090719190258.GA3854@galadriel.inutil.org>
and subject line Re: linux-2.6: enabling STRICT_DEVMEM
has caused the Debian Bug report #512733,
regarding linux-2.6: enabling STRICT_DEVMEM
to be marked as done.

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Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

in unofficial linux kernels from
http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel (but that will
become official as soon as they are uploaded into sid), the
STRICT_DEVMEM option is not set:

$ grep STRICT_DEVMEM /boot/config-2.6.*
/boot/config-2.6.27-1-686:# CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set
/boot/config-2.6.28-1-686:# CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set

According to http://lwn.net/Articles/308426/ it might be a good idea to
enable this option in order to prevent user space programs to
accidentally corrupt memory allocated by drivers, with possible negative
consequences such as file system corruption or even hardware damage
(e1000e for example).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- 
Laurent Bonnaud.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 2.6.28-1

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:38:32AM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in unofficial linux kernels from
> http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel (but that will
> become official as soon as they are uploaded into sid), the
> STRICT_DEVMEM option is not set:
> 
> $ grep STRICT_DEVMEM /boot/config-2.6.*
> /boot/config-2.6.27-1-686:# CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set
> /boot/config-2.6.28-1-686:# CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set
> 
> According to http://lwn.net/Articles/308426/ it might be a good idea to
> enable this option in order to prevent user space programs to
> accidentally corrupt memory allocated by drivers, with possible negative
> consequences such as file system corruption or even hardware damage
> (e1000e for example).

Enabled since 2.6.28-1.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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