On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 05:52:08PM -0500, Harry Wentland wrote:
> The leadership of freedesktop.org (fd.o) has recently expressed interest
> in having an elected governing body. Given the tight connection between
> fd.o and X.Org and the fact that X.Org has such a governing body it
> seemed
Adam Jackson, le jeu. 08 nov. 2018 15:19:41 -0500, a ecrit:
> > > If you try to implement this with a userspace arbiter then
> > > all you need to do to break it is run an old version of libpciaccess.
> >
> > Sure. Except if ioperm is allowed only for the pci arbiter.
>
> ... but that's all you
On Wed, 2018-11-07 at 22:56 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Adam Jackson, le mer. 07 nov. 2018 15:09:58 -0500, a ecrit:
> > Because the kernel is the one thing in a position to enforce access
> > exclusion.
>
> root-owned processes can still use ioperm to get access to io ports and
> break that.
