On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:26, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:39:16AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 00:26, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > The upstream raw(8) command supports /dev/rawctl and also
>> > /dev/raw/rawctl. I think it makes more sense to use raw/rawctl when
>> > you have all your raw devices in raw/ subdirectory (e.g. /dev/raw/raw<N>).
>>
>> The raw tool looks for /dev/rawctl first and the fallback to
>> /dev/raw/rawctl is named DEVFS_*. Should we turn that order around and
>> remove the devfs notion from the raw tool and let udev create a
>> dev/raw/rawctl node?
>
> Yeah. Fixed, committed and pushed.
>
> $ strace -e open ./raw
> open("/dev/raw/rawctl", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/dev/rawctl", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> I have also removed the #ifdef OLD_RAW_DEVS (/dev/raw<N>) junk.
A note on /dev/raw1394's security implications:
1. You cannot access local memory through raw1394, except
for ROMs and CSRs that are exposed to other nodes any way.
2. It is extremely hard to manipulate data on attached
SBP-2 devices (FireWire storage devices).
3. You can disturb operation of the FireWire bus, e.g.
creating a DoS situation for audio/video applications, for
SBP-2 devices, or eth1394 network interfaces.
4. If another PC is attached to the FireWire bus, it may be
possible to read or overwrite the entire RAM of that remote PC.
This depends on the PC's configuration. Most FireWire controllers
support this feature (yes, it's not a bug, or at least wasn't
intended to be one...) but not all OSs enable the feature.
Actually, a cheap setup to achieve #1 by #4 is to have two
FireWire controllers in the PC and connect them.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kino/+bug/6290/comments/21
specialix_rioctl: no kernel name symlink
specialix_sxctl: no kernel name symlink
bus/usb: 0644 -> 0664
ppdev: lp
dri: 0666 -> 0660
js: no kernel name symlink
In the interest of standardizing udev rules, please consider the
following patch that adds udev rules for the ATA over Ethernet character
and block devices. The aoe module has been a long-time member of the
kernel and needs inclusion in the standard udev rules.
[...] running the command
`make maintainer-clean' should not delete `configure' even if
`configure' can be remade using a rule in the Makefile. More
generally, `make maintainer-clean' should not delete anything that
needs to exist in order to run `configure' and then begin to build
the program. This is the only exception; `maintainer-clean' should
delete everything else that can be rebuilt.
Kay Sievers