Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: vm86 in kernel [was: vesafb...] | Date | Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:14:59 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Obviously you misread. Jeff Garzik's proposal was to get rid of the > separate dev/vesafb device and do the communication via /dev/fb ioctl > interface. Supposedly all the people in the video group are "trusted" but > that nevertheless opens a whole new can of worms.
You would have to sanitize the mode change requests and be sure you trust the bios on that card. If you can trust the bios then I think he has a fair point, if not then its trickier. You could do an suid() check anyway since LRMI only works as root
Alan
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