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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2019-10-08 17:43:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> | 2019-11-25 22:43:21 +0100 |
| commit | bf9f80cf0ccab5f346f7d3cdc445da8fcfe6ce34 (patch) | |
| tree | 8172a032992eb1279e8ed81cba7138d126348a6a /arch/um | |
| parent | 7e60746005573a06149cdee7acedf428906f3a59 (diff) | |
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um: virtio_uml: Disallow modular build
This driver *can* be a module, but then its parameters (socket path)
are untrusted data from inside the VM, and that isn't allowed. Allow
the code to only be built-in to avoid that.
Fixes: 5d38f324993f ("um: drivers: Add virtio vhost-user driver")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/um/drivers/Kconfig | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig b/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig index fea5a0d522dc..388096fb45a2 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig +++ b/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ config UML_NET_SLIRP endmenu config VIRTIO_UML - tristate "UML driver for virtio devices" + bool "UML driver for virtio devices" select VIRTIO help This driver provides support for virtio based paravirtual device diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c b/arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c index 76b97c2de9a8..023ced2250ea 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c @@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ * * Copyright(c) 2019 Intel Corporation * - * This module allows virtio devices to be used over a vhost-user socket. + * This driver allows virtio devices to be used over a vhost-user socket. * * Guest devices can be instantiated by kernel module or command line * parameters. One device will be created for each parameter. Syntax: * - * [virtio_uml.]device=<socket>:<virtio_id>[:<platform_id>] + * virtio_uml.device=<socket>:<virtio_id>[:<platform_id>] * where: * <socket> := vhost-user socket path to connect * <virtio_id> := virtio device id (as in virtio_ids.h) |