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[RESEND,v5,3.16-rc4,8/8] kdb: Allow access to sensitive commands to be restricted by default

Message ID 1405078418-14070-9-git-send-email-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
State New
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Daniel Thompson July 11, 2014, 11:33 a.m. UTC 
Currently kiosk mode must be explicitly requested by the bootloader or
userspace. It is convenient to be able to change the default value in a
similar manner to CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_MASK.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
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 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c |  2 +-
 lib/Kconfig.kgdb            | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
index c670fe4..a11a26b 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ 
 #undef	MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX
 #define	MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX "kdb."
 
-static int kdb_cmd_enabled;
+static int kdb_cmd_enabled = CONFIG_KDB_DEFAULT_ENABLE;
 module_param_named(cmd_enable, kdb_cmd_enabled, int, 0600);
 
 #define GREP_LEN 256
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kgdb b/lib/Kconfig.kgdb
index 358eb81..fbbcff6 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kgdb
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kgdb
@@ -73,6 +73,31 @@  config KGDB_KDB
 	help
 	  KDB frontend for kernel
 
+config KDB_DEFAULT_ENABLE
+	hex "KDB: Select kdb command functions to be enabled by default"
+	depends on KGDB_KDB
+	default 0x1
+	help
+	  Specifiers which kdb commands are enabled by default. This may
+	  be set to 1 or 0 to enable all commands or disable almost all
+	  commands.
+
+	  Alternatively the following bitmask applies:
+
+	    0x0002 - allow arbitrary reads from memory and symbol lookup
+	    0x0004 - allow arbitrary writes to memory
+	    0x0008 - allow current register state to be inspected
+	    0x0010 - allow current register state to be modified
+	    0x0020 - allow passive inspection (backtrace, process list, lsmod)
+	    0x0040 - allow flow control management (breakpoint, single step)
+	    0x0080 - enable signalling of processes
+	    0x0100 - allow machine to be rebooted
+
+	  The config option merely sets the default at boot time. Both
+	  issuing 'echo X > /sys/module/kdb/parameters/kdb.cmd_enable' or
+          setting with kdb.cmd_enable=X kernel command line option will
+	  override the default settings.
+
 config KDB_KEYBOARD
 	bool "KGDB_KDB: keyboard as input device"
 	depends on VT && KGDB_KDB