On Friday, 2 February 2001 at 20:10:10 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > >> crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78, 0 Dec 31 1969 pci > > This one may appear harmless, but it is not. It is trivially easy to create > an alignment fault (fatal on an alpha) with the userland pciconf tool. > We must not allow this to be used by users until the kernel part is fixed. > > Eg: try this on an alpha: pciconf -r -l pci0:x:x 0x3 - ie: read a longword > at byte offset 3 in configuration space.. kaboom! This looks like a separate issue. Presumably you can do this as root as well. pciconf should check the parameters. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
