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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@xxxxxxx>
> 
> 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



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