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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Thomas <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: /dev/mem and secure boot
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:02:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190906130221.0b47a565@endymion> (raw)

I've been bitten recently by mcelog not working on machines started in
secure boot mode. mcelog tries to read DMI information from /dev/mem
and fails to open it.

This made me wonder: if not even root can read /dev/mem (nor, I
suppose, /dev/kmem and /dev/port) in secure boot mode, why are we
creating these device nodes at all in the first place? Can't we detect
that we are in secure boot mode and skip that step, and reap the rewards
(faster boot, lower memory footprint and less confusion)?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

             reply	other threads:[~2019-09-06 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-06 11:02 Jean Delvare [this message]
2019-09-06 12:15 ` /dev/mem and secure boot Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-09-06 15:07   ` Jean Delvare
2019-09-06 15:08     ` Jean Delvare
2019-09-09 13:09   ` Jean Delvare
2019-09-12 10:44     ` Thomas Renninger
2019-09-16  9:38     ` David Howells

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