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On Sapphire Rapids and related platforms, the DSA and IAA devices have an erratum that causes direct access (for example, by using the ENQCMD or MOVDIR64 instructions) from untrusted applications to be a security problem. To solve this, add a flag to the PCI device enumeration and device structures to indicate the presence/absence of this security exposure. In the mmap() method of the device, this flag is then used to enforce that the user has the CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability. In a future patch, a write() based method will be added that allows untrusted applications submit work to the accelerator, where the kernel can do sanity checking on the user input to ensure secure operation of the accelerator. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.