From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com>, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: naveenkrishna.ch@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: amd_energy: modify the visibility of the counters
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:24:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <238e3cf7-582f-a265-5300-9b44948107b0@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112172159.8781-1-nchatrad@amd.com>
On 11/12/20 9:21 AM, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote:
> This patch limits the visibility to owner and groups only for the
> energy counters exposed through the hwmon based amd_energy driver.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com>
This is very unusual, and may mess up the "sensors" command.
What problem is this trying to solve ?
Guenter
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c b/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c
> index d06597303d5a..3197cda7bcd9 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static umode_t amd_energy_is_visible(const void *_data,
> enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
> u32 attr, int channel)
> {
> - return 0444;
> + return 0440;
> }
>
> static int energy_accumulator(void *p)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-12 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 17:21 [PATCH] hwmon: amd_energy: modify the visibility of the counters Naveen Krishna Chatradhi
2020-11-12 17:24 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2020-11-13 13:58 ` Salvatore Bonaccorso
2020-11-13 14:47 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-22 6:56 ` Chatradhi, Naveen Krishna
2020-11-22 13:30 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-22 16:42 ` Chatradhi, Naveen Krishna
2020-11-22 18:09 ` Guenter Roeck
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2020-11-09 9:07 Naveen Krishna Chatradhi
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