Commit 3f29d9ee authored by Günther Noack's avatar Günther Noack Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

TIOCSTI: Document CAP_SYS_ADMIN behaviour in Kconfig

Clarifies that the LEGACY_TIOCSTI setting is safe to turn off even
when running BRLTTY, as it was introduced in commit 690c8b80
("TIOCSTI: always enable for CAP_SYS_ADMIN").
Signed-off-by: default avatarGünther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230808201115.23993-1-gnoack3000@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent dfe2aeb2
...@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ config LEGACY_TIOCSTI ...@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ config LEGACY_TIOCSTI
userspace depends on this functionality to continue operating userspace depends on this functionality to continue operating
normally. 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 This functionality can be changed at runtime with the
dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti sysctl. This configuration option sets dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti sysctl. This configuration option sets
the default value of the sysctl. the default value of the sysctl.
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