Re: [PATCH V32 11/27] x86: Lock down IO port access when the kernel is locked down

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 04 2019 - 03:49:08 EST


On Wed, 3 Apr 2019, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> IO port access would permit users to gain access to PCI configuration
> registers, which in turn (on a lot of hardware) give access to MMIO
> register space. This would potentially permit root to trigger arbitrary
> DMA, so lock it down by default.
>
> This also implicitly locks down the KDADDIO, KDDELIO, KDENABIO and
> KDDISABIO console ioctls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>