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From: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: uinput - fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 20:43:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181018204344.4c135203@alans-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2856297d-9af0-e005-f926-e9596d437fad@embeddedor.com>

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 20:12:43 +0200
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> wrote:

> On 10/16/18 8:09 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > 
> > /dev/uinput   
> 
> I've got it. This explains it all. :)
> 
> > must be 0600, or accessible to equally privileged user, or you'll be opening your system to much mischief.

Still a correct change.

CAP_SYS_RAWIO is not the same as being root, especially in a container.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-18 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-16 11:13 [PATCH] Input: uinput - fix Spectre v1 vulnerability Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-10-16 17:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2018-10-16 17:52   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-10-16 18:09     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2018-10-16 18:12       ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-10-18 19:43         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2018-10-18 20:07           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2018-10-22 14:14     ` Pavel Machek

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