From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add user taint flag
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:37:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1148308674.3902.75.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1148308548.17376.44.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 15:35 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2006-05-22 at 16:14 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > we should then patch the /dev/mem driver or something to set this :)
> > (well and possibly give it an exception for now for PCI space until the
> > X people fix their stuff to use the proper sysfs stuff)
>
> /dev/mem is used for all sorts of sane things including DMIdecode.
> Tainting on it isn't terribly useful.
I meant taint-on-writable/write, dmi and others map it read only which
is obviously different
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-22 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-21 23:04 Theodore Ts'o
2006-05-22 10:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-22 18:33 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-22 23:49 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-24 13:43 ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-05-22 12:17 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2006-05-22 14:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-22 14:35 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-22 14:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-22 18:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-22 14:37 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-05-23 1:11 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-22 15:48 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-05-23 18:45 ` Greg KH
2006-05-24 13:39 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-24 13:55 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-24 14:15 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-25 15:01 ` Greg KH
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