Because people can play games reprogramming keys and leaving traps for the next user of the console. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ do_kdgkb_ioctl(int cmd, struct kbsentry __user *user_kdgkb, int perm)
int i, j, k;
int ret;
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG))
+ return -EPERM;
+
kbs = kmalloc(sizeof(*kbs), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!kbs) {
ret = -ENOMEM;