From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: check capabilities in open()
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:23:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100725092354.GA7728@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100725054511.GB9018@albatros>
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 09:45 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Btw, the list of such drivers is much smaller, some of them just return
> -EPERM and open() fails, it is OK. I'll resend more precise list soon.
The list is tiny:
arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c
drivers/char/agp/frontend.c
drivers/char/apm-emulation.c
Aslo comment from drivers/cahr/apm-emulation.c:
/*
* XXX - this is a tiny bit broken, when we consider BSD
* process accounting. If the device is opened by root, we
* instantly flag that we used superuser privs. Who knows,
* we might close the device immediately without doing a
* privileged operation -- cevans
*/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-25 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-24 16:07 check capabilities in open() Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-07-24 18:23 ` Al Viro
2010-07-25 5:45 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-07-25 9:23 ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]
2010-07-26 11:23 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-26 16:52 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
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