[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH] Raffle 0

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 05:03:44PM -0700, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> From: Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
> Subject: [PATCH] powercap: restrict energy meter to root access
> 
> From: Len Brown <[email protected]>
> 
> 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 <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Also, any reason you didn't run this through checkpatch.pl first?