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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]X86:reboot.c Add some dmi entries to pci_reboot_dmi_table.
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 22:48:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100601214820.GB18864@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C057EF0.2030808@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:43:12PM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 02:29 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> So, just to be clear, you run this as root and it immediately returns
>> you to the prompt? This seems unlikely.
>
> yep.. with the above code
> I (save to a file) then
> non-root gcc reboot.c -o reboot
> then su
> ./reboot
> just bake to the command prompt

Are you running some sort of security policy that might block hardware 
access? I'm going to have to find one of these machines to test with - 
on everything I have here, the cf9 write and the keyboard controller 
write both generate reboots. The worst case should be a hung machine, 
not one that continues running...

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-29  6:26 [PATCH]X86:reboot.c Add some dmi entries to pci_reboot_dmi_table Justin P. Mattock
2010-05-31 17:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-05-31 17:46   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-01 19:00     ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-01 19:14       ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-01 19:21         ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-01 20:06           ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-01 20:07             ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-01 20:17               ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-01 20:21                 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-01 20:31                   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-01 20:33                     ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-01 20:51                       ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-01 21:12                         ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-01 21:26                           ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-01 21:29                             ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-01 21:43                               ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-01 21:48                                 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-06-01 21:56                                   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-02 12:08                                   ` Alan Cox
2010-06-02 13:32                                     ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-02  5:11                                 ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-02  6:01                                   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-02 23:18                                     ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-02 23:43                                       ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-02 23:45                                         ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-03  0:05                                           ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03  0:20                                             ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-03  0:27                                               ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03  0:34                                                 ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-03  0:51                                                   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03  1:37                                                 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-03  1:46                                                   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03  1:47                                                   ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-03  1:56                                                     ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-03  2:06                                                       ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03  2:06                                                       ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-03  2:00                                                     ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03  2:05                                                       ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-03  2:16                                                         ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03  2:15                                                     ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03  2:18                                                       ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-03  2:22                                                         ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03  9:54                                                         ` Alan Cox
2010-06-03 10:11                                                           ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-03 11:46                                                           ` Matthew Garrett
2010-06-03 14:43                                                           ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-03  2:19                                                       ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-07-31 19:00     ` Justin Mattock

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