Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:46:25 -0700 (PDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c) |
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 1) You can do inb/outb access from userland. If you're root, you don't > need any ioctl to issue a command that'd violate the ATA > specification to the drive. Notice I said if it provides access to a resource at A PROTOCOL LEVEL. inb/outb should not be protected, because this is direct access, below the protocol level
> So your fix doesn't help against mailicous software (trojan horses, > whatever). I don't know about Andre, but I think this should be done for correctness.
> > So why all the screaming and shouting? > I'm not sure, in retrospect I think Andre should have just a patch right to Linus without any discussion ;)
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