From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: remove CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement from kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_irq
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 19:54:31 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100513225431.GE27620@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100512134619.30602.63792.stgit@virtlab9.virt.bos.redhat.com>
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:46:31AM -0400, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Remove this check in an effort to allow kvm guests to run without
> root privileges. This capability check doesn't seem to add any
> security since the device needs to have already been added via the
> assign device ioctl and the io actually occurs through the pci
> sysfs interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-14 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-12 13:46 [PATCH] kvm: remove CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement from kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_irq Alex Williamson
2010-05-13 22:06 ` Chris Wright
2010-05-13 22:22 ` Alex Williamson
2010-05-13 22:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
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