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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real  this time)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 04:58:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200106010858.f518w4c18391@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.991383180.28261.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B17025B.E5E23095@sun.com> <mailman.991383180.28261.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>

> But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the
> hardware.  What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to
> continually cat this file?  :)

Nothing good, probably. Same story as /proc/apm, which only
hits BIOS instead (and it's debateable what is better).

> Security: don't you want CAP_RAW_IO or something before executing any of
> these ioctls?

Perhaps it's mode 600 in their distro...

> bug: you can't hold a spinlock while you are sleeping in copy_from_user

Yep... I meant to check for it but forgot.

-- Pete

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-01  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-01  2:47 [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time) Tim Hockin
2001-06-01  8:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-01  8:46 ` [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this Alan Cox
     [not found] ` <mailman.991383180.28261.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-06-01  8:58   ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2001-06-01 12:03     ` [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time) Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-01 12:20       ` [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis time) Jeff Garzik
2001-06-01 12:51         ` [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis Alan Cox
2001-06-01 12:56           ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-01 12:58             ` Alan Cox
2001-06-01 13:06               ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-01 13:15                 ` [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis Jeff Garzik
2001-06-01 13:19                   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-01 14:02                     ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-01 13:39                   ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-01 14:14                     ` jamal
2001-06-01 14:30                       ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-02 14:49                         ` jamal
2001-06-03 12:09                           ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-04 18:43                             ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-04 19:08                             ` jamal
2001-06-01 14:19                 ` [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for Alan Cox
2001-06-01 14:37                   ` Mark Frazer
2001-06-01 14:37                     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-01 14:45                       ` Mark Frazer
2001-06-01 14:46                       ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-01 17:37                     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-02  8:20                       ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-02 16:15                         ` Alan Cox
2001-06-02 19:10                           ` MII access (was [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems) Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-02 19:25                             ` MII access (was [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) Alan Cox
2001-06-02 21:36                               ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-02 21:37                                 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-03 11:59                                   ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-03 12:11                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-05  9:07                                       ` Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-10  2:07                                         ` eepro100 security fix [was: Re: MII access] Andrey Savochkin
2001-06-01 15:13                   ` [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for Bogdan Costescu
2001-06-02 22:04               ` [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for realthis Jamie Lokier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-01  2:49 [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (for real this time) Tim Hockin
2001-06-01  4:47 ` Dax Kelson
2001-06-01  7:47 ` Jeff Garzik
     [not found] <mailman.991363680.24671.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-06-01  4:09 ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-06-01  6:57   ` Tim Hockin
2001-06-01  7:27     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-01  8:43     ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-06-01 18:29       ` Tim Hockin

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