Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:33:34 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@fromme.com> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tosha port causing system to reboot Message-ID: <3D69F5EE.2010005@quake.com.au> References: <200208260826.g7Q8QKb56085@haluter.fromme.com>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > In general, though, you can't say that a userland program should never be > > able to cause a system panic. Using /dev/mem, you can scribble all over > > the place, including registers on most card in the system. Writing random > > garbage to /dev/mem will probably panic the system pretty quick. > > OK, that's true, but you need specific permissions to do > that. Tosha doesn't do any "magic" or "forbidden things". > Using the standard CAM API should be pretty safe. > > It is also recommended to _not_ run tosha as root, and > _not_ set any s-bits on the binary, but instead using the > group access features on the appropriate pass/xpt devices. Yes Im very bad... I run it as root.. But even so it shouldnt panic the system.. I will go and compile the kernel with debugging symbols and take another dump and trace and see if it reveals anything anyway... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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