From: Allen <allen.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
ast@kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>,
Allen Pais <allen.pais@lkml.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] PCI: allow sysfs file owner to read the config space with CAP_SYS_RAWIO
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:51:39 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOMdWS+F=cCK=Rgy-0xk4_mqUFMn1PQBWR8u3JwqTP2AVifxsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201019131613.GA3254417@kroah.com>
> > > >
> > > > Access to pci config space is explictly checked with CAP_SYS_ADMIN
> > > > in order to read configuration space past the frist 64B.
> > > >
> > > > Since the path is only for reading, could we use CAP_SYS_RAWIO?
> > >
> > > Why? What needs this reduced capability?
> >
> > Thanks for the review.
> >
> > We need read access to /sys/bus/pci/devices/, We need write access to config,
> > remove, rescan & enable files under the device directory for each PCIe
> > functions & the downstream PCIe port.
> >
> > We need r/w access to sysfs to unbind and rebind the root complex.
>
> That didn't answer my question at all.
Sorry about that, breaking it down:
When the machine first boots, the VFIO device bindings under /dev/vfio
are not present.
root@localhost:/tmp# ls -l /dev/vfio/
total 0
crw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 10, 196 Jan 5 01:47 vfio
We have an agent which needs to run the following commands (We get
access denied here and need permissions to do this).
echo -n xxxx yyyy > /sys/module/vfio_pci/drivers/pci:vfio-pci/new_id
echo -n xxxx yyyy > /sys/module/vfio_pci/drivers/pci:vfio-pci/new_id
And we want to avoid handing CAP_SYS_ADMIN here. Which is why the
thought about CAP_SYS_RAWIO.
>
> Why can't you have the process that wants to do all of the above, have
> admin rights as well? Doing all of that is _very_ low-level and can
> cause all sorts of horrible things to happen to your machine, and is not
> really "raw io" in the traditional sense at all, right?
If the above approach is going to cause the system to do horrible things,
then I'll drop the idea.
--
- Allen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-19 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-16 5:52 Allen Pais
2020-10-16 6:20 ` Greg KH
2020-10-19 13:00 ` Allen
2020-10-19 13:16 ` Greg KH
2020-10-19 13:21 ` Allen [this message]
2020-10-19 13:47 ` Greg KH
2020-10-19 14:32 ` Allen
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