Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add current_batch sysfs entry

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 07:07:47PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Now someone comes along and changes them all to x-y, where both x and y
> > are > 6. Or removes the sequence numbers completely.
> 
> While there are system admins who might want to deliberately sabotage the
> system they are responsible for ... let's not worry too much about them. They
> have root access and can find a million other ways to break things.

It doesn't have to be a deliberate sabotage but just plain old
sloppiness. Or some wild renaming when handing in the directory into
guests with bind mounts or some weird setup or whatnot.

You're making these sequence numbers unnecessarily magical.
And they don't need to be.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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