ARM: implement CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM by disabling access to RAM via /dev/mem

There are very few legitimate use cases, if any, for directly accessing
system RAM through /dev/mem.  So let's mimic what they do on x86 and
forbid it when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is turned on.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c
index 4f5b39687df5..b0a98305055c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmap.c
@@ -144,3 +144,25 @@ int valid_mmap_phys_addr_range(unsigned long pfn, size_t size)
 {
         return !(pfn + (size >> PAGE_SHIFT) > 0x00100000);
 }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
+
+#include <linux/ioport.h>
+
+/*
+ * devmem_is_allowed() checks to see if /dev/mem access to a certain
+ * address is valid. The argument is a physical page number.
+ * We mimic x86 here by disallowing access to system RAM as well as
+ * device-exclusive MMIO regions. This effectively disable read()/write()
+ * on /dev/mem.
+ */
+int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+        if (iomem_is_exclusive(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT))
+                return 0;
+        if (!page_is_ram(pfn))
+                return 1;
+        return 0;
+}
+
+#endif