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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * A generic version of devmem_is_allowed.
+ *
+ * Based on arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 Google, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/ioport.h>
+
+/*
+ * devmem_is_allowed() checks to see if /dev/mem access to a certain address
+ * is valid. The argument is a physical page number.  We mimic x86 here by
+ * disallowing access to system RAM as well as device-exclusive MMIO regions.
+ * This effectively disable read()/write() on /dev/mem.
+ */
+int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	if (iomem_is_exclusive(PFN_PHYS(pfn)))
+		return 0;
+	if (!page_is_ram(pfn))
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}