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SubjectRe: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c)
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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