Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

[Andrew Gallatin]

Kenneth D. Merry writes:
 > As for PCIOCREAD, it only allows reading of PCI registers, so the question
 > there is whether there are any potential security implications to allowing
 > non-root users to read PCI registers.  If reading configuration registers
 > caused performance degredation, for instance.

I think that you might be able to crash an alpha with an unaligned
access trap by reading an int or short an from an unaligned offset in
config space.  At least this used to be true..  I'd vote for leaving
the access permissions as is. 

Drew


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