MSIX failure

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, September 09, 2010 12:41:07 pm Jack Vogel wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Kurt Jaeger <pi at opsec.eu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > Is this within a jail or something else along those lines?  I can't
> > > > reproduce the problem otherwise.  Frustrating!  Someone else on the
> > list
> > > > might have ideas as to what could cause this.
> > >
> > > Nope, this's a normal host. I've got securelevel on 1, but doubt that
> > > would affect this?
> >
> > I assume it affects it.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/security.html#SECURELEVEL
> >
> > Basically, when the securelevel is positive, the kernel restricts
> > certain tasks; not even the superuser (i.e., root) is allowed to
> > do them.
> >
> > There:
> >
> > # Write to kernel memory via /dev/mem and /dev/kmem.
> >
> > So I assume it also restricts reading /dev/kmem ?
> >
> >
> OH YUCK, another root isn't really root, so is it also possibly
> the reason for the MSIX failure?? Is this pile, er feature, on by default?

securelevel does not affect any of the MSI/MSI-X bits.

-- 
John Baldwin