Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2000 15:39:48 +0400 (MSD) | | Subject | Re: Direct access to hardware |
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In <8lal5l$1u7$1@enterprise.cistron.net> Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl) wrote: > In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.21.0007211543460.12570-100000@anime.net>, > Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote: >>On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ville Herva wrote: >>> So, would it be feasible to make it possible to disable direct hardware >>> access (/dev/mem, /dev/nvram, HD ioctls, what else?) completely in kernel >>> config? >> >>I would certainly feel better if this were possible, in which case Andre's >>patch would be more reasonable.
> It _is_ possible. Check out "capabilities".
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD is protected by ADMIN capability, not RAW I/O capability. IMNSHO is something should be fixed that's it. Perhaps better to require both.
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