Re: [PATCH v5 10/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: add filtering capability for requests

2017-10-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 11:59:54PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > There are some categories of tokens and SMBIOS calls that it makes > sense to protect userspace from accessing. These are calls that > may write to one time use fields or activate hardware debugging > capabilities. They are not

Re: [PATCH v5 10/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: add filtering capability for requests

2017-10-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 11:59:54PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > There are some categories of tokens and SMBIOS calls that it makes > sense to protect userspace from accessing. These are calls that > may write to one time use fields or activate hardware debugging > capabilities. They are not

[PATCH v5 10/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: add filtering capability for requests

2017-10-06 Thread Mario Limonciello
There are some categories of tokens and SMBIOS calls that it makes sense to protect userspace from accessing. These are calls that may write to one time use fields or activate hardware debugging capabilities. They are not intended for general purpose use. This same functionality may be be later

[PATCH v5 10/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: add filtering capability for requests

2017-10-06 Thread Mario Limonciello
There are some categories of tokens and SMBIOS calls that it makes sense to protect userspace from accessing. These are calls that may write to one time use fields or activate hardware debugging capabilities. They are not intended for general purpose use. This same functionality may be be later