[PATCH] /proc/ppc64/lparcfg permissions

[Nathan Lynch]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:31:11PM -0500, Makhlis, Lev wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 13:04 -0400, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > > Makhlis, Lev wrote: 
> > > >Hi, 
> > > > 
> > > >Is there a good reason that /proc/ppc64/lparcfg is only readable to
> > root? 
> > > >(For comparison, any user can run lparstat(1) on AIX.) 
> > >  
> > > No reason that I'm aware of. 
> > > 
> > 
> > I'd be a little more cautious (paranoid?).  Reading lparcfg causes 
> > several hypervisor and RTAS calls.  It seems there's potential for 
> > local DOS if we were to make this world-readable.
> 
> Do you know if lpar_get_info() on AIX makes the same hypervisor calls?

No, I don't know.