Re: [PATCH] Input: uinput - fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Oct 18 2018 - 15:44:03 EST


On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 20:12:43 +0200
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/16/18 8:09 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> >
> > /dev/uinput
>
> I've got it. This explains it all. :)
>
> > must be 0600, or accessible to equally privileged user, or you'll be opening your system to much mischief.

Still a correct change.

CAP_SYS_RAWIO is not the same as being root, especially in a container.

Alan