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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2008-07-01 17:18:17 +0100
committerJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>2008-07-01 09:51:53 -0700
commita94c248113b86bbbc47d027a4004b70f2be298b1 (patch)
treeb33c29082b1294287bb45f95730f87db002fba98 /security
parent543cf4cb3fe6f6cae3651ba918b9c56200b257d0 (diff)
PCI: Restrict VPD read permission to root
Some PCI devices will lock up if we attempt to read from VPD addresses beyond some device-dependent limit. Until we can identify these devices and adjust the file size accordingly, only let root read VPD through sysfs to prevent a DoS by normal users. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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