By creating our parent IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM resource with IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE, we will disallow any /dev/mem access to our device-managed region. Note that access to the region would still be possible if someone simply doesn't load the virtio-mem driver; however, there is no way of protecting against someone that just wants to do nasty things. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c index 09ed55de07d7..c8f914700a42 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c @@ -2516,8 +2516,10 @@ static int virtio_mem_create_resource(struct virtio_mem *vm) if (!name) return -ENOMEM; + /* Disallow mapping device memory via /dev/mem completely. */ vm->parent_resource = __request_mem_region(vm->addr, vm->region_size, - name, IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM); + name, IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | + IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE); if (!vm->parent_resource) { kfree(name); dev_warn(&vm->vdev->dev, "could not reserve device region\n"); -- 2.31.1