Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 09:12:27PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:02:26 +0000
> David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Also, I think Alan's comment about it the last time it came up was more like
> > > a "look at all of the other ways you could do bad things to hardware!"
> > > comment, not a "you need to also do this thing too!" type of request.  
> 
> 
> In all honesty I think both need to go in together, otherwise the first
> patch is useless. It's not a case of "oh there may be another obscure
> exploit .." , this is "I can automate it with a python script, post a
> CVE, and show I'm awesome" 8)

What about all of the ways you can change ioports dynamically from
ioctls?  Or can't python write ioctls to device nodes?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h