capable open_port() check wrong for kmem

From: carbonated beverage (ramune@net-ronin.org)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 22:22:43 EST

hi all,

        I found that I can't open /dev/kmem O_RDONLY. The open_mem
and open_kmem calls (open_port()) in drivers/char/mem.c checks for
CAP_SYS_RAWIO.

        Is there a possibility of splitting that off into a read and
write pair, i.e. CAP_SYS_RAWIO_WRITE, CAP_SYS_RAWIO_READ?

        If not, is there a way to grant read-only access to /dev/kmem?

-- DN
Daniel
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