From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>,
"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/papr_scm: Make access mode of 'perf_stats' attribute file to '0400'
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:12:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo26abmf.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200807123146.11037-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> The newly introduced 'perf_stats' attribute uses the default access
> mode of 0444 letting non-root users access performance stats of an
> nvdimm and potentially force the kernel into issuing large number of
> expensive HCALLs. Since the information exposed by this attribute
> cannot be cached hence its better to ward of access to this attribute
> from non-root users.
>
> Hence this patch updates the access-mode of 'perf_stats' sysfs
> attribute file to 0400 to make it only readable to root-users.
Or should we ratelimit it?
Fixes: ??
> Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
cheers
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2020-08-07 12:31 [PATCH] powerpc/papr_scm: Make access mode of 'perf_stats' attribute file to '0400' Vaibhav Jain
2020-08-10 13:12 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2020-08-12 7:36 ` Vaibhav Jain
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