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Message-ID: <20230828164521.tpvubdufa62g7zwc@begin>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:45:21 +0200
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To: Günther Noack <gnoack@...gle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
	Simon Brand <simon.brand@...tadigitale.de>,
	Dave Mielke <Dave@...lke.cc>,
	Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>,
	KP Singh <kpsingh@...gle.com>,
	Nico Schottelius <nico-gpm2008@...ottelius.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] Restrict access to TIOCLINUX

Günther Noack, le lun. 28 août 2023 18:41:16 +0200, a ecrit:
> The number of affected programs should be much lower than it was the case for
> TIOCSTI (as TIOCLINUX only applies to virtual terminals), and even in the
> TIOCLINUX case, only a handful of legitimate use cases were mentioned.  (BRLTTY,
> tcsh, Emacs, special versions of "mail").  I have high confidence that GPM is
> the only existing usage of that copy-and-paste feature.

BRLTTY also uses it. It is also admin, so your change is fine :)

FI, https://codesearch.debian.net/ is a very convenient tool to check
what FOSS might be using something.

Samuel

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