On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, David Howells wrote: > From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garr...@nebula.com> > > IO port access would permit users to gain access to PCI configuration > registers, which in turn (on a lot of hardware) give access to MMIO > register space. This would potentially permit root to trigger arbitrary > DMA, so lock it down by default. > > This also implicitly locks down the KDADDIO, KDDELIO, KDENABIO and > KDDISABIO console ioctls. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garr...@nebula.com> > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
