On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 01:09:55AM +0300, Vladislav Zolotarov wrote: > How about instead of trying to invent the wheel just go and attack the problem > directly just like i've proposed already a few times in the last days: instead > of limiting the UIO limit the users that are allowed to use UIO to privileged > users only (e.g. root). This would solve all clearly unresolvable issues u are > raising here all together, wouldn't it?
No - root or no root, if the user can modify the addresses in the MSI-X table and make the chip corrupt random memory, this is IMHO a non-starter. And tainting kernel is not a solution - your patch adds a pile of code that either goes completely unused or taints the kernel. Not just that - it's a dedicated userspace API that either goes completely unused or taints the kernel. > > > > -- > > MST >