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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Austin Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanvandeven@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ioperm is kept on fork
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:29:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55805D0B.6020309@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMMLpeRz=nxZqLiYcMA1WN==S68SsFCd-WJ9q63yTxSqjHei6A@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/16/2015 09:42 AM, Alex Henrie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could one of you knowledgeable kernel developers comment on
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99911 ? The man pages
> maintainer wants to know when this behavior changed.
> 

I know that I wrote a program which required I/O privileges at some
point, and it called ioperm() in a setuid wrapper.  This was in the late
90s.  I suspect we'd have to do a bit of a deep dive to double-check;
the old ioperm() code which only supported the ISA port range to avoid
having to copy the bitmap might be good to look at.

	-hpa



      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-16 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-16 16:42 ioperm is kept on fork Alex Henrie
2015-06-16 17:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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