Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:41:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mtrr: s/suser/capable/ |
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:11:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > These cases in mtrr.c are clearly CAP_SYS_RAWIO. > > > > > > Clearly? How do MTRR changes relate to rawio ? > > > > RAWIO is about hardware level access not Stephens O_DIRECT stuff > > So why is /proc/kcore access SYS_RAWIO then ?
because via /proc/kcore you can access hardware (with Kanoj's recent patch i.e.)
> > And why is nvram access not SYS_RAWIO ?
because it's a bug. I see it uses CAP_SYS_ADMIN but it should really use CAP_SYS_RAWIO.
Regards, Tigran
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