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Message-ID: <20110714234248.7ed43534@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:42:48 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Allow disabling of sys_iopl, sys_ioperm

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:34:53 -0700
Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com> wrote:

> In some build environments, it is useful to allow disabling of IO
> accesses to hardware, without having to rely on CAP_SYS_RAWIO (which is

And others include mmap and the tty driver and the PCI config space
(various devices can be manipulated via pci config space to do I/O cycles)

It strikes me that

a) you can do this with a security module
b) its rather incomplete

and as such you don't need kernel hacks to do it because everything you
want is already there.

Alan
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