On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 05:10:33PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >>> Should this not also have a capability check. Assuming file permissions
> >>> are sufficient for grabbing a chunk of system memory holding error
> >>> info doesn't seem too scary b
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Luck, Tony wrote:
>>> Should this not also have a capability check. Assuming file permissions
>>> are sufficient for grabbing a chunk of system memory holding error
>>> info doesn't seem too scary but it's at odds with a lot of other cases ?
>>
>> At least one of t
>> Should this not also have a capability check. Assuming file permissions
>> are sufficient for grabbing a chunk of system memory holding error
>> info doesn't seem too scary but it's at odds with a lot of other cases ?
>
> At least one of those other cases (pstore) added a capability check and no
"Luck, Tony" writes:
> From: Tony Luck
>
> The ACPI sysfs interface provides a way to read each ACPI table from
> userspace via entries in /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/
>
> The BERT table simply provides the size and address of the error
> record in BIOS reserved memory and users may want access to
> Should this not also have a capability check. Assuming file permissions
> are sufficient for grabbing a chunk of system memory holding error
> info doesn't seem too scary but it's at odds with a lot of other cases ?
At least one of those other cases (pstore) added a capability check and now
reg
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:39:46 -0700
"Luck, Tony" wrote:
> From: Tony Luck
>
> The ACPI sysfs interface provides a way to read each ACPI table from
> userspace via entries in /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/
>
> The BERT table simply provides the size and address of the error
> record in BIOS reserved
From: Tony Luck
The ACPI sysfs interface provides a way to read each ACPI table from
userspace via entries in /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/
The BERT table simply provides the size and address of the error
record in BIOS reserved memory and users may want access to this
record.
In an earlier age we
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