On 02/12/2013 10:27 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:12 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Sounds like you are thinking of CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but I don't really see a
huge difference between MSRs and I/O control registers... just different
address spaces.
Not having CAP_SYS_RAWIO blocks various SCSI commands, for instance.
These might result in the ability to write individual blocks or destroy
the device firmware, but do any of them permit modifying the running
kernel?
That is just batshit crazy. If you have CAP_SYS_RAWIO you can do iopl()
which means you can reprogram your northbridge, at which point you most
definitely *can* modify the running kernel.
And some SCSI driver requires this??!
-hpa
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