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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com>,
	linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, naveenkrishna.ch@gmail.com,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: amd_energy: modify the visibility of the counters
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:58:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201113135834.GA354992@eldamar.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <238e3cf7-582f-a265-5300-9b44948107b0@roeck-us.net>

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:24:22AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 11/12/20 9:21 AM, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote:
> > This patch limits the visibility to owner and groups only for the
> > energy counters exposed through the hwmon based amd_energy driver.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com>
> 
> This is very unusual, and may mess up the "sensors" command.
> What problem is this trying to solve ?

Is this related to

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897402
https://support.lenovo.com/lu/uk/product_security/LEN-50481
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12912

?

Regards,
Salvatore

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-13 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-12 17:21 [PATCH] hwmon: amd_energy: modify the visibility of the counters Naveen Krishna Chatradhi
2020-11-12 17:24 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-13 13:58   ` Salvatore Bonaccorso [this message]
2020-11-13 14:47     ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-22  6:56     ` Chatradhi, Naveen Krishna
2020-11-22 13:30       ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-22 16:42         ` Chatradhi, Naveen Krishna
2020-11-22 18:09           ` Guenter Roeck
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-09  9:07 Naveen Krishna Chatradhi

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