From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.skyhub.de (mail.skyhub.de [5.9.137.197]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB08C8470 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:17:06 +0000 (UTC) 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> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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