Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2015-06-16

[Bug 99901] iopl is lost on fork and execve

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Date: 2015-06-16 09:48:09

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99901

Michael Kerrisk [off-list ref] changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> ---
Alex,

Thanks for this report and also for
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99911
I recall seeing your mailing list discussions on this and had been meaning to
follow up.

(In reply to Alex Henrie from comment #0)
Created attachment 179841 [details]
iopl3 test program

`man iopl` currently states "Permissions are inherited by fork(2) and
execve(2)." This is not true. iopl has never been preserved across fork or
execve on x64 kernels,[1] and it has not been preserved across those
syscalls on x86 kernels since Linux 3.7.[2] There are no plans to change the
current behavior for either architecture.[3-6]
Okay -- I'll come up with some man page text, but first I have a question in
the other bug.

Cheers,

Michael

A test program to demonstrate this behavior is attached.

[1]
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/
x86/kernel/process_64.c
[2]
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/
x86/kernel/process_32.c?id=6783eaa2e1253fbcbe2c2f6bb4c843abf1343caf
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/11/1054
[4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/12/55
[5] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/12/537
[6] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/12/545
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