Thank you for the fix, Philipp. Applied:
https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/01d20ca1861ffaf449c1c60aa05...
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 1:03 AM <crash-utility-request(a)redhat.com> wrote:
 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 07:45:51 +0000
 From: HAGIO KAZUHITO(?????)     <k-hagio-ab(a)nec.com>
 To: Philipp Rudo <prudo(a)redhat.com>
 Cc: "Discussion list for crash utility usage,   maintenance and
         development" <crash-utility(a)redhat.com>
 Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] Fix live debugging with
         lockdown=integrity
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 -----Original Message-----
 > With kernel lockdown the access to kernel interfaces that allow to
 > extract confidential information (lockdown=confidentiality) or modify a
 > running kernel (lockdown=integrity) can be restricted. Two of the
 > interfaces that can be restricted are /dev/mem (integrity &
 > confidentiality) and /proc/kcore (confidentiality). With
 > lockdown=integrity this leads to a situation where /dev/mem exists but
 > is not readable while /proc/kcore exists and is readable. This breaks
 > crash's live debugging when it is invoked without argument, i.e.
 >
 > $ crash
 > [...]
 > crash: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted
 >
 > while passing /proc/kcore as image succeeds. The reason for this is that
 > crash always picks /dev/mem as source when it exits but doesn't check if
 > it is readable. Fix this by only selecting /dev/mem when it is readable.
 >
 > Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo(a)redhat.com>
 Thank you for the patch.
 Acked-by: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab(a)nec.com>
 Kazu
 > ---
 >  filesys.c | 2 +-
 >  main.c    | 2 +-
 >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 >
 > diff --git a/filesys.c b/filesys.c
 > index 3361b6c..43cbe82 100644
 > --- a/filesys.c
 > +++ b/filesys.c
 > @@ -3666,7 +3666,7 @@ get_live_memory_source(void)
 >       if (pc->live_memsrc)
 >               goto live_report;
 >
 > -     if (file_exists("/dev/mem", NULL))
 > +     if (file_readable("/dev/mem"))
 >               pc->live_memsrc = "/dev/mem";
 >       else if (file_exists("/proc/kcore", NULL)) {
 >               pc->flags &= ~DEVMEM;
 > diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
 > index 71c59d2..b278c22 100644
 > --- a/main.c
 > +++ b/main.c
 > @@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ setup_environment(int argc, char **argv)
 >       pc->flags2 |= REDZONE;
 >       pc->confd = -2;
 >       pc->machine_type = MACHINE_TYPE;
 > -     if (file_exists("/dev/mem", NULL)) {     /* defaults until argv[]
 is parsed */
 > +     if (file_readable("/dev/mem")) {     /* defaults until argv[] is
 parsed */
 >               pc->readmem = read_dev_mem;
 >               pc->writemem = write_dev_mem;
 >       } else if (file_exists("/proc/kcore", NULL)) {
 > --
 > 2.31.1