Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Allow disabling of sys_iopl, sys_ioperm

[Mike Waychison]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:34:53 -0700
> Mike Waychison <mikew@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In some build environments, it is useful to allow disabling of IO
>> accesses to hardware, without having to rely on CAP_SYS_RAWIO (which is
>
> And others include mmap and the tty driver and the PCI config space
> (various devices can be manipulated via pci config space to do I/O cycles)
>
> It strikes me that
>
> a) you can do this with a security module

I can?   How?   The whole LSM approach seems intractable to me.

> b) its rather incomplete
>
> and as such you don't need kernel hacks to do it because everything you
> want is already there.

Where?  In an out of tree security module patchset?

>
> Alan
>
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