Re:Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models
by merb on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:48PM
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well windows can get write access to these aswell. (just not by using rm or any other tool to remove files by default).
I think this is a big difference and should probably be addressed. make /sys read-only and allow to write them differently with a interface where I need to call THIS_METHOD_CAN_BREAK_A_SYSTEM_IF_USED_INCORRECT_WRITE_SYS() command. but well, systemd guys will/won't do that.
Re:Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models
by JdeBP on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @03:38PM
(#15973577)
It wasn't a systemd thing. The people who relate the tale as if it were a systemd thing or something that the systemd people did are ill-informed. Much as in the case of the headlined bug at hand, it was entirely a kernel thing. This was even stated outright at the time by the creator of that particular kernel mechanism.
To learn the real story, go and read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11152880 where you will find Matthew Garrett xyrself participating in the discussion.
[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402