From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752721AbcBCLA7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2016 06:00:59 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:36543 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750863AbcBCLA5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2016 06:00:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 12:00:53 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Luck, Tony" , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Brian Gerst , lkml Subject: Re: [RFC] Dump interesting arch/platform info Message-ID: <20160203110052.GA20682@pd.tnic> References: <20160201115601.GD6438@pd.tnic> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FCE0E4@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160202094147.GA3778@pd.tnic> <20160203104823.GA21257@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160203104823.GA21257@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 11:48:23AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Agreed. We used to have something like this but then removed it due to various > problems - but the concept itself is fine. > > Note that these can be pretty security sensitive pieces of information, and can > also expose ASLR/KASLR details, so the VFS interface needs to be a strictly > root-only thing. Oh sure, so the use case I have in mind is have this as a module, modprobe it on a system, get the whole info and delete the module .ko file again. As root. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.