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authorGünther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>2023-08-08 22:11:12 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-08-30 14:52:45 +0200
commitae2d1461ebccba1596b08f8478bf5c9bed854184 (patch)
tree2c8ab9ffd0baa02fe525a59d81385acac0bbc19b
parent259ff81cee3c8e8b2b06be7cc31ae401247f3101 (diff)
TIOCSTI: Document CAP_SYS_ADMIN behaviour in Kconfig
commit 3f29d9ee323ae5cda59d144d1f8b0b10ea065be0 upstream. Clarifies that the LEGACY_TIOCSTI setting is safe to turn off even when running BRLTTY, as it was introduced in commit 690c8b804ad2 ("TIOCSTI: always enable for CAP_SYS_ADMIN"). Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230808201115.23993-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/Kconfig3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/Kconfig
index 341abaed4ce2..069de553127c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/Kconfig
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ config LEGACY_TIOCSTI
userspace depends on this functionality to continue operating
normally.
+ Processes which run with CAP_SYS_ADMIN, such as BRLTTY, can
+ use TIOCSTI even when this is set to N.
+
This functionality can be changed at runtime with the
dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti sysctl. This configuration option sets
the default value of the sysctl.