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From: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: Hostaudio module parameters
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:45:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310062045.58646.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY7-F106QD9Eg44PdO0000c3b5@hotmail.com>

Alle 22:20, domenica 5 ottobre 2003, Steve Schmidtke ha scritto:
[Don't bother me for the Uml. the message I'm answering to was in HTML and my 
mailer didn't strip tags. It's not my fault]
> <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>
> <P>&gt;Since hostaudio can be also a module, it's useful to specify the
> host dsp and </P> <P>&gt;mixer position even on module loading. So I've
> added two params with </P></DIV> <DIV></DIV>&gt;descriptions for this. The
> patch is straightforward and non-intrusive, so <DIV></DIV>&gt;please apply
> it.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P>This could be abused to allow reading and writing arbitrary files on the
> host by loading the module with parameters within the UML.
But if the host hasn't DevFS, the paths are wrong, so the hostaudio won't work 
as a module. A solution is needed(not compiling it as a module is fine, but 
it's a workaround).

So, I could move the uml_setup strings out of hostaudio_kern.c, so that the 
boot time params are always read(and conditionalize them to the fact that 
CONFIG_HOSTAUDIO or whatever is set to at least M, if possible). Then both if 
hostaudio is a module and if if is statically linked, it will read the 
boot-time params.

For hostfs, which could have the same problem if modularized, the problem 
doesn't happen because it can't be a module. Or maybe, on module loading the 
uml_setup parameters should be considered anyway(this is a general solution, 
and maybe hard, but is not a bad idea).

However, if the driver works for arbitrary file, wouldn't it be easy to use it 
for Unix socket forwarding(in the V1-needs list, on the site)?
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-05 20:20 [uml-devel] Re: Hostaudio module parameters Steve Schmidtke
2003-10-05 22:59 ` Adam Heath
2003-10-06 18:45 ` BlaisorBlade [this message]
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2003-11-09 20:34 ` Jeff Dike

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