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powercap: restrict energy meter to root access
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000 (13:00 -0800)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:40:57 +0000 (11:40 -0500)
commite0047f21cf99fe901f3e18db7393a17b79d6062f
treea90cbfb8ceb195e7160105a272122f97bab99980
parent74348e005408f2697dd7f76a83e145855eb17547
powercap: restrict energy meter to root access

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: 09f951c56e73 ("PowerCap: Fix mode for energy counter")
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c