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Firmware upgrade tools that decide which NVM image should be uploaded to the Thunderbolt controller need to access active parts of the NVM even if they are not run as root. The information in active NVM is not considered security critical so we can use the default permissions set by the NVMem framework. Writing the NVM image is still left as root only operation. While there mark the active NVM as read-only in the filesystem. Reported-by: Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkel.bernat@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.