From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Hinds <dhinds@sonic.net>
Cc: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Junfeng Yang <yjf@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] pcmcia user-pointer dereference
Date: 30 May 2003 11:11:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1054289503.23566.20.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030529143624.A10639@sonic.net>
On Iau, 2003-05-29 at 22:36, David Hinds wrote:
> The map_mem_page ioctl can only be used by root. The get_*_window
> ioctl's can't corrupt anything because they, like get_mem_page, only
> read the target data structures.
Which if the passed address is something like a PCI DMA trigger register
isn't going to be too pretty
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-30 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-29 21:11 Hollis Blanchard
2003-05-29 21:22 ` David Hinds
2003-05-29 21:30 ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-05-29 21:36 ` David Hinds
2003-05-30 10:11 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-05-30 10:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-31 22:46 ` David Wagner
[not found] <E19LjBL-0000FS-00@mrrp.telinco.co.uk>
2003-05-30 12:43 ` Mike Playle
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