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SubjectRe: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel
Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:55:47AM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> > > And from time to time, security issues regarding ioctls that are not
> > > checking for privileges when they should are found. A central
> > > ioctl-directory is a good place to have privilege information too.
> >
> > This is much less frequent in 2.1 with the current uaccess.h
> > implementations of copy_from_user, copy_to_user, get_user, put_user.
> > At least on i386, these facilities cannot stomp on kernel memory no
> > matter *what* values the user specifies.
> >
>
> This isn't the problem. The problem is ioctl calls which should have
> an capable(SOMETHING) check, but don't. Errors like that are probably
> easier to spot if they are specified centrally.
>
> astor

speaking of ioctl's, are there any good spots to find documentaion of
all
of the ioctl's. sometimes I have found them in the driver src, somtimes
man
pages, sometimes doc directory in the general tree, etc...

Just wondering if there is any available documentation about them in a
standard location.

Steve

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