Good day!
Just found that flashrom doesnt work on some hardened configuration -
Hardened Gentoo - on hardened kernel-2.6.38

Linux xserver 2.6.38-hardened #1 SMP Wed Apr 20 02:19:23 CEST 2011
x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

flashrom v0.9.3-r1297 on Linux 2.6.38-hardened (x86_64), built with
libpci 3.1.7, GCC 4.5.2, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OS timer resolution is 1 usecs, 1530M loops
per second, 10 myus = 10 us, 100 myus = 99 us, 1000 myus = 996 us,
10000 myus = 9977 us, 4
myus = 4 us, OK.
Initializing internal programmer
ERROR: Could not get I/O privileges (Operation not permitted).
You need to be root.


And this from dmesg:

[1578171.686680] grsec: From 79.111.220.160: denied use of iopl() by
/home/xvilka/flashrom/flashrom[flashrom:10596] uid/euid:0/0
gid/egid:0/0, parent
/bin/bash[bash:10591] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
[1578218.043347] grsec: From 79.111.220.160: denied use of iopl() by
/home/xvilka/flashrom/flashrom[flashrom:10612] uid/euid:0/0
gid/egid:0/0, parent
/bin/bash[bash:10606] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
[1578388.047996] grsec: From 79.111.220.160: denied use of iopl() by
/home/xvilka/flashrom/flashrom[flashrom:10645] uid/euid:0/0
gid/egid:0/0, parent
/bin/bash[bash:10606] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0

And found this theme http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?t=1654
So, for access ioperm() and iopl() you need disable "Disable
Privileged I/O (CONFIG_GRKERSEC_IO)" option in kernel config.
Can we print this message when found such configuration?
Are there way to make port access without iopl()?

Best regards,
Anton Kochkov.

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