[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH] Raffle 0

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 05:03:44PM -0700, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] powercap: restrict energy meter to root access
> 
> From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> 
> 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>

So you forwarded on a patch from someone else but did not put your own
signed-off-by on it?  That's not good :(

Also, why is this being sent to speck?  What is wrong with the normal
development process?

thanks,

greg k-h