linux-kernel - Re: WMI and Kernel:User interface

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 02:28:06 +0200
From:   Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>
To:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@...l.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WMI and Kernel:User interface

On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 10:40 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
[...]
> There are plenty of other examples of things you can do to screw up the
> state of your system if you have the right permissions for which the
> answer is "don't do that". Consider MEM(4), SETPCI(8), ... /dev/sda ...
> for example.

So what is the problem?!
And that pretty much answers it for the Unix world IMHO (FWIW) ...

And there is *a lot* more of that if you are root.
WTF - that actually is the job definition of root/administrator/
supervisor/... to be able to fix (almost) everything and that implies
practically the rights to be able to do everything.

MfG,
	Bernd
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