Re: [RFC] Dump interesting arch/platform info

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Feb 03 2016 - 06:01:03 EST


On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 11:48:23AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Agreed. We used to have something like this but then removed it due to various
> problems - but the concept itself is fine.
>
> Note that these can be pretty security sensitive pieces of information, and can
> also expose ASLR/KASLR details, so the VFS interface needs to be a strictly
> root-only thing.

Oh sure, so the use case I have in mind is have this as a module,
modprobe it on a system, get the whole info and delete the module .ko
file again. As root.

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Boris.

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