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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: Lock down MSR writing in secure boot
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On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 16:48 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> OK... what none of this gets into:
>
> Why should CAP_RAWIO be allowed on a secure boot system, when there are
> 2^n known ways of compromise a system with CAP_RAWIO?

CAP_SYS_RAWIO seems to have ended up being a catchall of "Maybe someone
who isn't entirely root should be able to do this", and not everything
it covers is equivalent to being able to compromise the running kernel.
I wouldn't argue with the idea that maybe we should just reappraise most
of the current uses of CAP_SYS_RAWIO, but removing capability checks
from places that currently have them seems like an invitation for
userspace breakage.
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