Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751344AbWECA1G (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 20:27:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751331AbWECA1G (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 20:27:06 -0400 Received: from h80ad2526.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.38]:54223 "EHLO h80ad2526.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751344AbWECA1E (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 20:27:04 -0400 Message-Id: <200605030026.k430QEf1003100@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Jon Smirl , Dave Airlie , Arjan van de Ven , greg@kroah.com, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@linux.ie, pjones@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 May 2006 18:19:14 MDT." <20060503001914.GA9609@parisc-linux.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1146300385.3125.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <9e4733910605020938h6a9829c0vc70dac326c0cdf46@mail.gmail.com> <44578C92.1070403@linux.intel.com> <9e4733910605020959k7aad853dn87d73348cbcf42cd@mail.gmail.com> <44579028.1020201@linux.intel.com> <9e4733910605021013h17b72453v3716f68a2cebdee1@mail.gmail.com> <1146594457.32045.91.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <9e4733910605021200y6333a67sd2ff685f666cc6f9@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e9970605021440s6cdc3895t57617e5fad6c5050@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910605021452r3aec1035pa475b701b2c3563c@mail.gmail.com> <20060503001914.GA9609@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1146615973_2530P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 20:26:14 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1025 Lines: 30 --==_Exmh_1146615973_2530P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 02 May 2006 18:19:14 MDT, Matthew Wilcox said: > I suppose SELinux might be able to help, but I don't care to get into > that discussion here ;-) The RedHat patch splatting most of /dev/mem would help more than SELinux would. (Of course, that assumes that the offending address space is someplace that X doesn't actually need itself, and that the patch blocks access to....) --==_Exmh_1146615973_2530P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFEV/ilcC3lWbTT17ARAl/aAKCsL1jFzfSHv8iAIdgnSOX87TNP3QCgxaeI ODfTmxBWrg4uvj7hqhIgqcI= =SkpF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1146615973_2530P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/