Re: [PATCH v2] efivarfs: Limit the rate for non-root to read files

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Thu Feb 22 2018 - 13:08:35 EST


On 22 February 2018 at 18:07, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> With the new "while/nap" change there would still be one message
>> per second, but the number of callbacks suppressed should be 1
>> (unless the user has many threads doing reads).
>>
>> Maybe it is good to know that an application is doing something
>> stupid and we should drop that line from the patch and let the
>> warnings flow?
>
> I think the "one message per second" is fine.
>
> Looks good. Do I get this through the EFI tree, or should I just take
> it directly?
>

Please take it directly if everybody is happy with it.

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>