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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	gregkh@kroah.com
Subject: Re: 53C8XX /sys/devices/pci*/*/config revisited
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:57:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050515175730.GA3898@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116156415.6270.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:26:55PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > if hal reads more than 64 bytes of config space (heck if it reads config
> > space at all) then it's terminally broken.
> 
> this brings up a bug in the kernel though....
> the config file is user readable! That's just plain dangerous and imo it
> should be a root-only file as a result.

No, it's safe (or it should be), just like /proc/bus/pci is readable by
anyone for libpci.

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-15 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-15 11:02 53C8XX /sys/devices/pci*/*/config revisited Matthias Andree
2005-05-15 11:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-15 11:26   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-15 12:56     ` Matthias Andree
2005-05-15 14:48       ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-05-15 17:57     ` Greg KH [this message]

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