Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] powerpc: avoid userspace poking to legacy ioports
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       parabelboi@bopserverein.de, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
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> 
> * Super-I/O chips at 0x2e/0x2f and 0x4e/0x4f.
> 
> * Legacy PC hardware monitoring chips at 0x290-0x297.
> 
> * IPMI interface at 0x0ca3 and 0x0cab (read-only).
> 
> Please tell me which ones should be skipped on PowerPC.

Skip the whole thing. I consider that on a powerpc linux port, the
platform is responsible for telling drivers where things are (via the
device tree generally)
 
> Christian, can you tell me which of these probes caused trouble for you?
> 
> > > And how is userland code poking at random ports different from kernel
> > > code poking at random ports? We could move sensors-detect inside the
> > > kernel (and I have some plan to do that) but I fail to see how this
> > > would solve this particular problem.
> > 
> > It wouldn't, but at least I could NAK it or make it CONFIG_X86 :-)
> 
> The same could be done for user-space (or at the /dev/port level.)

Well, there are -other- legit usages of /dev/port...

Ben.


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