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Hi Guenter, Salvatore
This is very unusual, and may mess up the "sensors" command. What problem is this trying to solve ?
Guenter, sorry for the delayed response. This fix is required to address the possible side channel attack reported in CVE-2020-12912.
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Yes, Salvatore, thanks for bringing the links.
Regards, Naveenk
-----Original Message----- From: Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonaccorso@gmail.com On Behalf Of Salvatore Bonaccorso Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 7:29 PM To: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Cc: Chatradhi, Naveen Krishna NaveenKrishna.Chatradhi@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
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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
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Regards, Salvatore