On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 09:12:27PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:02:26 +0000 > David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > > Also, I think Alan's comment about it the last time it came up was more > > > like > > > a "look at all of the other ways you could do bad things to hardware!" > > > comment, not a "you need to also do this thing too!" type of request. > > > In all honesty I think both need to go in together, otherwise the first > patch is useless. It's not a case of "oh there may be another obscure > exploit .." , this is "I can automate it with a python script, post a > CVE, and show I'm awesome" 8)
What about all of the ways you can change ioports dynamically from ioctls? Or can't python write ioctls to device nodes? :) thanks, greg k-h
