From: Mathias Schnarrenberger <mathias.schnarrenberger@gmx.de>
To: "Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: security: delete BIOS password in keyboard buffer during kernel bootup
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:41:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811090941.20401.mathias.schnarrenberger@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2cc26e40811080839i387e5e94o519a5d1ff0086379@mail.gmail.com>
> What if my BIOS stores some critical info at that memory address?
> I don't think the kernel is the right place to work around this issue.
AFAIK every IBM PC compatible BIOS stores the keyboard buffer in this area.
Mathias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-09 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-08 10:00 security: delete BIOS password in keyboard buffer during kernel bootup Mathias Schnarrenberger
2008-11-08 14:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-08 14:36 ` Mathias Schnarrenberger
2008-11-08 16:39 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-09 8:41 ` Mathias Schnarrenberger [this message]
2008-11-09 11:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-11 16:18 ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-11 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-12 8:51 ` Gerhard Mack
2008-11-09 15:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
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