[PATCH v2 1/2] drm: Add GPU reset sysfs event

Christian König ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 10:24:02 UTC 2022


Am 09.03.22 um 11:10 schrieb Simon Ser:
> On Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 at 10:56, Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer at amd.com> wrote:
>
>> Would it be possible to include the app parameters as well?
> Can all processes read sysfs events?

No, but application parameters are usually not secret.

> There might be security implications here. The app parameters might
> contain sensitive information, like passwords or tokens.

It's a well known security vulnerably to provide password etc.. as 
application parameter since everybody can read them through procfs.

> Can't the uevent receiver query the kernel to get that info from the
> PID?

I'm leaning also towards just providing the PID and not the application 
name. The information should be as short as possible.

Regards,
Christian.


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