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    PCI: Require vendor and device for new_id · 6ba18636
    Jean Delvare authored
    Currently, there is no minimum number of fields required when adding
    a new device ID to a PCI driver through the new_id sysfs file. It is
    possible to add a new ID with only the vendor ID set, causing the
    driver to attempt to attach to all PCI devices from that vendor. This
    has been reported to happen accidentally:
      http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-March/019366.html
    It is even possible to not even set the vendor ID field, causing the
    driver to attempt to attach to _all_ the PCI devices.
    
    This sounds dangerous and I fail to see any valid use of this
    "feature". Thus I suggest that we now require at least the first two
    fields (vendor ID and device ID) to be set. For what it's worth, this
    is what the USB subsystem does.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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