Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs/efivarfs: restrict inode permissions

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

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4 (yes FOUR!) SMIs.
Is that actualkly the normal implementation?
Is that actualkly the normal implementation?
Also, if these are just synchronous SMI's, then don't we just end up correctly assigning the CPU load to the reader, and it doesn't actually matter? Where's the DoS?
actually matter? Where's the DoS?
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