powercap: restrict energy meter to root access
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000 (13:00 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:11:27 +0000 (21:11 +0100)
commit900281e167f45e0c0e5df6e59fa00334b5e38133
treec4955ca45f46892cd43ff09d111d3b83123b0a3e
parent53fff24aaf01dcb09cbfabbe060f42db8e61ab01
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>
drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c