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From: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
To: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>,
	Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request to backport "sysctl: fix proc_dobool() usability" to stable kernels
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 03:06:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <09ee7747-3038-4d6c-b063-f0349fa52b6e@t-8ch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZAQDxbTlaIoKb9yB@mjollnir>

On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 09:51:49PM -0500, Storm Dragon wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 02:18:11AM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > This ioctl is used for the copy-and-paste functionality of the
> > screenreader "fenrir".
> > ( https://github.com/chrys87/fenrir )
> > 
> > Reported-by: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@gmail.com>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZAOi9hDBTYqoAZuI@hotmail.com/
> 
> I believe this will also cause some loss of functionality in brltty as
> well:
> 
> https://brltty.app

The documentation of brltty indicates that they only use TIOCSTI as
fallback. By default a virtual keyboard device is used to simulate
typing.


Maybe it would also make sense to open a ticket to ArchLinux to enable
CONFIG_LEGACY_TIOCSTI again, as per the kernel default.

In accordance with the options help text:

"Say 'Y here only if you have confirmed that yout system's userspace
depends on this functionality to continue operating normally"

Could you create such a ticket if think it's necessary?


  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-05  3:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-10 14:58 [PATCH] sysctl: fix proc_dobool() usability Ondrej Mosnacek
2023-02-20 12:52 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2023-02-21 17:34 ` Kees Cook
2023-02-21 21:36   ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-02-22  7:52     ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2023-03-05  2:18 ` Request to backport "sysctl: fix proc_dobool() usability" to stable kernels Thomas Weißschuh
2023-03-05  2:51   ` Storm Dragon
2023-03-05  3:06     ` Thomas Weißschuh [this message]
2023-03-06 17:47       ` Storm Dragon

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