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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:40:31 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: lm sensors sysfs file structure
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:21:48AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> 
> Silly w83781d again.  temp1 is a u8, and temp2 and temp3 is u16
> (if they are supported on the specific model.
> 
> Should we do any bounds checking on input via sysfs ?

So that you can't hurt your hardware or crash the os, yes.

I think the write ability is limited to root, so that's a good first
step too.

thanks,

greg k-h