linux-hardening - Re: Reconsider possibility to disable icotl TIOCSTI

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2022 21:37:04 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Simon Brand <simon.brand@...tadigitale.de>
Cc:     linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reconsider possibility to disable icotl TIOCSTI

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 07:51:11PM +0000, Simon Brand wrote:
> please reconsider to add a possibility to disable icotl TIOCSTI.

Yeah, please, let's. I always wanted to, and its use case is very
narrow. Even OpenBSD has removed it, somewhat motivated by the attempt
to remove it from Linux in 2017. I've sent this now:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20221015041626.1467372-2-keescook@chromium.org/

-- 
Kees Cook