Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Allow user space to map rtas_rmo_buf
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2016-01-22 05:29:24
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2016-01-22 05:29:24
On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 21:45 +0530, Vasant Hegde wrote:
With commit 90a545e9 (restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges) mapping rtas_rmo_buf from user space is failing. Hence we are not able to make RTAS syscall. This patch calls page_is_rtas_user_buf before calling iomem_is_exclusive in devmem_is_allowed(). This will allow user space to map rtas_rmo_buf and we are able to make RTAS syscall.
Thanks for the patch. I'll put it in my fixes branch for next week. Having said that, why the <expletive deleted> is librtas mapping /dev/mem in the first place? Unless there is a very good reason, and probably even if there is, we should fix that to use a sane API. cheers