On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 07:02:06PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org writes:
4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
No objection. But I think of this as a feature addition rather than a fix for something. As a feature that we now allow something we previously did not does this qualify for a backport to stable?
It is probably no more harmful in this instance than adding PCI IDs to a driver. So I am not worried. I am curious the current guidelines are.
In most cases a small relaxation of permissions like this requires a lot of bug fixing as typically code protected by capable(CAP_XXX) has been written and tested assuming a trusted root user. Those bug fixes are many times too large for a stable backport.
Fair enough, patch is now dropped, thanks for the review.
greg k-h