Re: Direct access to hardware

From: Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 18:04:05 EST


On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > If somebody sends me a patch to change CAP_SYS_ADMIN into CAP_SYS_RAWIO,
> > I'll apply it in a jiffy.
>
> I'll fix 2.2

I could be wrong (tm), but I think Matthew Kirkwood has had a patch
restricting raw drive command ioctl()'s to CAP_SYS_RAWIO, for a while ;-)

Again I could be wrong (more tm) but didn't 2.0 link raw drive command
ioctl()'s to securelevel==0 ?

Chris

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