Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [Coverity] Untrusted user data in kernel | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:30:04 +0100 |
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> But the difference between you example (cp /dev/zero /dev/mem) and > passing unchecked data to the kernel is... you _can_ check the data and
This is the difference: static int open_port(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp) { return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? 0 : -EPERM; } (from mem.c)
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