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KVM: Device assignment: Check for privileges before assigning irq
authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:22:37 +0000 (16:22 +0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:15:20 +0000 (10:15 +0200)
Even though we don't share irqs at the moment, we should ensure
regular user processes don't try to allocate system resources.

We check for capability to access IO devices (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) before
we request_irq on behalf of the guest.

Noticed by Avi.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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diff --cc arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
Simple merge
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