Re: [PATCH v4] MIPS: Make CP0 config registers readable via sysfs.

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On 01/04/2013 10:38 AM, Hill, Steven wrote:
You're exporting privileged context outside the kernel -- have all the
security implications been considered?

Maciej,

I have gone through the config registers bit-by-bit and I do not see
where there are any security implications.

[...]

Unless you can provide a counterexample,
this patch does not compromise the system in anyway.


The patch stands alone. Any security problems it might have are completely unrelated to any hypothetical Counter Examples.

David Daney


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