Re: [PATCH] KERNEL: resource: Fix bug on leakage in /proc/iomem file

From: Christian Kujau
Date: Wed Apr 06 2016 - 15:02:55 EST


On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, ed@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> First, I wrote your attached patch, but then I thought zeroing other
> /proc/iomem values would be better. So I changed it.

On my systems, /proc/iomem, /proc/ioports and others get their
world-readable bits removed during bootup - I guess that would mitigate
this issue too?

Christian.
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