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[2620:137:e000::1:20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b3-20020a056a000a8300b005623e8c0abcsi11504252pfl.151.2022.11.14.11.32.17; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:32:29 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 2620:137:e000::1:20 as permitted sender) client-ip=2620:137:e000::1:20; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@alien8.de header.s=dkim header.b="liup/6aT"; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 2620:137:e000::1:20 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=alien8.de Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235639AbiKNTRX (ORCPT + 88 others); Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:17:23 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56972 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S237259AbiKNTRH (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:17:07 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de (mail.skyhub.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:190:11c2::b:1457]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 973C425C62; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:17:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from zn.tnic (p200300ea9733e773329c23fffea6a903.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ea:9733:e773:329c:23ff:fea6:a903]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 901F61EC0304; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:17:04 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1668453424; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=0yOv7Ya4gMC2S+YFP7nqoZiedy6vsxEGzTcWXsSsn7I=; b=liup/6aTEaEwlhUsyzQPZHo9tnKe2q8J9Myahg3/lDZf5lYxEwpFutWKjy8ZyZOAc+9CYr uvYoyJ6D1leoLGBn+QyWSYfnDc2LnB6+XG4MFuIJTizGbkDtTYNwW2S06a/1HT9ZzIEHXq kWvAESpS4/J+GSd6lIFjsc2j59wmKJU= Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:17:00 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: "Hansen, Dave" , "Raj, Ashok" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "Macieira, Thiago" , "Joseph, Jithu" , "hdegoede@redhat.com" , "markgross@kernel.org" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "dave.hansen@linux.intel.com" , "x86@kernel.org" , "hpa@zytor.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org" , "patches@lists.linux.dev" , "Shankar, Ravi V" , "Jimenez Gonzalez, Athenas" , "Mehta, Sohil" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add current_batch sysfs entry Message-ID: References: <20221107225323.2733518-13-jithu.joseph@intel.com> <45aa0f69-2523-3cba-8f41-b1351f16b78f@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 07:07:47PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Now someone comes along and changes them all to x-y, where both x and y > > are > 6. Or removes the sequence numbers completely. > > While there are system admins who might want to deliberately sabotage the > system they are responsible for ... let's not worry too much about them. They > have root access and can find a million other ways to break things. It doesn't have to be a deliberate sabotage but just plain old sloppiness. Or some wild renaming when handing in the directory into guests with bind mounts or some weird setup or whatnot. You're making these sequence numbers unnecessarily magical. And they don't need to be. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette