Re: [PATCH] hwmon: amd_energy: modify the visibility of the counters

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:

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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