[PATCH 2/2] sysrq: Allow magic SysRq key functions to be disabledthrough Kconfig

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Oct 06 2013 - 20:05:57 EST


Turn the initial value of sysctl kernel.sysrq (SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE)
into a Kconfig variable.

Original version by Bastian Blank <waldi@xxxxxxxxxx>.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Added cross-references between sysrq.txt and Kconfig help
(and added the hex values with a preparatory patch)
- Removed the redunant SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE macro
- Renamed the Kconfig symbol because it's not necessarily a mask

Documentation/sysrq.txt | 13 ++++++-------
drivers/tty/sysrq.c | 2 +-
include/linux/sysrq.h | 3 ---
kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
lib/Kconfig.debug | 9 +++++++++
5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysrq.txt b/Documentation/sysrq.txt
index 1c0471d..0e307c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysrq.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysrq.txt
@@ -11,11 +11,9 @@ regardless of whatever else it is doing, unless it is completely locked up.
You need to say "yes" to 'Magic SysRq key (CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ)' when
configuring the kernel. When running a kernel with SysRq compiled in,
/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq controls the functions allowed to be invoked via
-the SysRq key. By default the file contains 1 which means that every
-possible SysRq request is allowed (in older versions SysRq was disabled
-by default, and you were required to specifically enable it at run-time
-but this is not the case any more). Here is the list of possible values
-in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq:
+the SysRq key. The default value in this file is set by the
+CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE config symbol, which itself defaults
+to 1. Here is the list of possible values in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq:
0 - disable sysrq completely
1 - enable all functions of sysrq
>1 - bitmask of allowed sysrq functions (see below for detailed function
@@ -32,8 +30,9 @@ in /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq:
You can set the value in the file by the following command:
echo "number" >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

-The number may be written either as decimal or as hexadecimal with the
-0x prefix.
+The number may be written here either as decimal or as hexadecimal
+with the 0x prefix. CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE must always be
+written in hexadecimal.

Note that the value of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq influences only the invocation
via a keyboard. Invocation of any operation via /proc/sysrq-trigger is always
diff --git a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
index 40a9fe9..ce396ec 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
#include <asm/irq_regs.h>

/* Whether we react on sysrq keys or just ignore them */
-static int __read_mostly sysrq_enabled = SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE;
+static int __read_mostly sysrq_enabled = CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE;
static bool __read_mostly sysrq_always_enabled;

unsigned short platform_sysrq_reset_seq[] __weak = { KEY_RESERVED };
diff --git a/include/linux/sysrq.h b/include/linux/sysrq.h
index 7faf933..387fa7d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysrq.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysrq.h
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

-/* Enable/disable SYSRQ support by default (0==no, 1==yes). */
-#define SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE 1
-
/* Possible values of bitmask for enabling sysrq functions */
/* 0x0001 is reserved for enable everything */
#define SYSRQ_ENABLE_LOG 0x0002
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index b2f06f3..8b80f1b 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static int proc_dostring_coredump(struct ctl_table *table, int write,

#ifdef CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ
/* Note: sysrq code uses it's own private copy */
-static int __sysrq_enabled = SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE;
+static int __sysrq_enabled = CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE;

static int sysrq_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 06344d9..2932937 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -312,6 +312,15 @@ config MAGIC_SYSRQ
keys are documented in <file:Documentation/sysrq.txt>. Don't say Y
unless you really know what this hack does.

+config MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE
+ hex "Enable magic SysRq key functions by default"
+ depends on MAGIC_SYSRQ
+ default 0x1
+ help
+ Specifies which SysRq key functions are enabled by default.
+ This may be set to 1 or 0 to enable or disable them all, or
+ to a bitmask as described in Documentation/sysrq.txt.
+
config DEBUG_KERNEL
bool "Kernel debugging"
help

--
Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
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