Re: cat /proc/pci and NCR 810 SCSI parity error

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jsgf@sirius.com)
Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:34:05 -0700 (PDT)

On 07-Oct-98 Gerard Roudier wrote:
> The chip also maps its IO registers at offset 0x80 of its PCI
> configuration space. So, your command is just doing a register dump while
> the chip is running. Normally, the only IO register that can be accessed
> while the SCRIPTS processor is running is the ISTAT register.

So you're saying that having /proc/bus/pci/* world-readable is a significant
security hole?

J

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