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author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2020-11-10 13:00:00 -0800 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-11-10 21:11:27 +0100 |
commit | 900281e167f45e0c0e5df6e59fa00334b5e38133 (patch) | |
tree | c4955ca45f46892cd43ff09d111d3b83123b0a3e /drivers/xen/preempt.c | |
parent | 53fff24aaf01dcb09cbfabbe060f42db8e61ab01 (diff) |
powercap: restrict energy meter to root access
commit 949dd0104c496fa7c14991a23c03c62e44637e71 upstream.
Remove non-privileged user access to power data contained in
/sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl*/*/energy_uj
Non-privileged users currently have read access to power data and can
use this data to form a security attack. Some privileged
drivers/applications need read access to this data, but don't expose it
to non-privileged users.
For example, thermald uses this data to ensure that power management
works correctly. Thus removing non-privileged access is preferred over
completely disabling this power reporting capability with
CONFIG_INTEL_RAPL=n.
Fixes: 95677a9a3847 ("PowerCap: Fix mode for energy counter")
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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