Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] ACPI / sysfs: Extend ACPI sysfs to provide access to boot error region | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2017 02:12:50 +0000 |
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> Should this not also have a capability check. Assuming file permissions > are sufficient for grabbing a chunk of system memory holding error > info doesn't seem too scary but it's at odds with a lot of other cases ?
At least one of those other cases (pstore) added a capability check and now regret it. There's a thread on reverting it. Look for:
Revert "pstore: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on dmesg dumps"
-Tony
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