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From: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
To: Rik Faith <faith@precisioninsight.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm+eric@ccr.net>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: MMIO regions
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:21:15 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910102015030.4696-100000@imperial.edgeglobal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14336.53971.896012.84699@light.alephnull.com>

> No.  The DRI assumes that direct-rendering clients are running as non-root
> users.  A direct-rendering client, with an open connection to the X server,
> is allowed to mmap the MMIO region via a special device (additional
> restrictions also apply).  For more information, please see "A Security
> Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure"
> (http://precisioninsight.com/dr/security.html).

> Just to clarify, the DRI does _not_ require that clients be SUID.

Oh my. Non root and direct access to buggy hardware. 

Yeah since your familar with SGI can you explain to me the use of 
/dev/shmiq, /dev/qcntl and /dev/usemaclone. I have seen them used for the
X server on IRIX and was just interested to see if they could be of use on
other platforms. Yes SGI linux supports these.

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-10-11  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-04 14:38 James Simmons
1999-10-04 15:31 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-04 15:52   ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 16:02     ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-10-04 17:27       ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 17:56         ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-10-04 18:26           ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 19:19         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-06 20:15           ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 17:09             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 17:26               ` Jeff Garzik
1999-10-11 23:14                 ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 17:57               ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 16:11     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-04 18:29       ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 19:35         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-07 19:40           ` James Simmons
1999-10-10 11:24             ` Rik Faith
1999-10-10 14:03               ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-10-10 18:46                 ` Rik Faith
1999-10-11  0:21                   ` James Simmons [this message]
1999-10-11 10:59                     ` Rik Faith
1999-10-11  3:38                   ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-10-10 14:21               ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 17:22             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-04 16:58 ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-10-04 18:27   ` James Simmons

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