Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:38:04 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make /dev/kmem a config option |
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:05:09 -0800 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] make /dev/kmem a config option > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > > This patch makes /dev/kmem a config option; /dev/kmem is VERY rarely > used, and when used, it's generally for no good (rootkits tend to be > the most common users). With this config option, users have the > choice to disable /dev/kmem, saving some size as well. > > A patch to disable /dev/kmem has been in the Fedora and RHEL kernels for > 4+ years now without any known problems or legit users of /dev/kmem. >
I question the testedness of this.
> +config DEV_KMEM > ... > +#ifdef CONFIG_DEVKMEM >
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