x86/mm/pat, /dev/mem: Remove superfluous error message
authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Fri, 8 Jul 2016 09:38:28 +0000 (11:38 +0200)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Mon, 6 Feb 2017 22:32:51 +0000 (23:32 +0100)
commit1eae225e4386ce577234130cd7d89cbc615b468d
tree8e0b4378fe8896559c19774672da81110d523525
parent928a27752e51670cd282848e7cde8e2e1ac4ec19
x86/mm/pat, /dev/mem: Remove superfluous error message

commit 39380b80d72723282f0ea1d1bbf2294eae45013e upstream.

Currently it's possible for broken (or malicious) userspace to flood a
kernel log indefinitely with messages a-la

Program dmidecode tried to access /dev/mem between f0000->100000

because range_is_allowed() is case of CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM being turned on
dumps this information each and every time devmem_is_allowed() fails.

Reportedly userspace that is able to trigger contignuous flow of these
messages exists.

It would be possible to rate limit this message, but that'd have a
questionable value; the administrator wouldn't get information about all
the failing accessess, so then the information would be both superfluous
and incomplete at the same time :)

Returning EPERM (which is what is actually happening) is enough indication
for userspace what has happened; no need to log this particular error as
some sort of special condition.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1607081137020.24757@cbobk.fhfr.pm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
arch/x86/mm/pat.c
drivers/char/mem.c