Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:11:11 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | proposed patches for 2.3.11 |
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Hi Linus,
Following are two patches against clean 2.3.10 which I'd like to submit for 2.3.near_future.
The first is a forward port (re-diff :) of the capability bounding set patch which is in Alan's proposed 2.2.11pre2. This goes some way towards restoring 2.0's securelevel functionality.
Hopefully, it's pretty uncontroversial.
The second requires CAP_SYS_RAWIO to open /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port and /proc/kcore. (Something similar should also be done to Alan's dmaram.c.)
This one may be slightly more contentious, as 2.0 securelevel restricted only _write_ to mem and kmem. I intend to submit something like this for 2.2, but I think that 2.3 and onwards could and should be more aggressive on issues like this.
Comments?
Matthew.
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