The coretemp driver uses rdmsr_on_cpu calls to read
MSR_IA32_PACKAGE_THERM_STATUS/MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS registers,
which contain information about current core temperature.
For certain low latency applications, the RDMSR interruption exceeds
the applications requirements.
So disallow reading of crit_alarm and temp files via /sys, returning
-EINVAL, in case CPU isolation is enabled.
Temperature information from the housekeeping cores should be
sufficient to infer die temperature.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: improve changelog to mention that an error is returned,
and sysfs file is not disabled (Guenter Roeck)
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
index 9bee4d33fbdf..30a35f4130d5 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <asm/msr.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/cpu_device_id.h>
+#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
#define DRVNAME "coretemp"
@@ -121,6 +122,10 @@ static ssize_t show_crit_alarm(struct device *dev,
struct platform_data *pdata = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
struct temp_data *tdata = pdata->core_data[attr->index];
+
+ if (!housekeeping_cpu(tdata->cpu, HK_TYPE_MISC))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
mutex_lock(&tdata->update_lock);
rdmsr_on_cpu(tdata->cpu, tdata->status_reg, &eax, &edx);
mutex_unlock(&tdata->update_lock);
@@ -158,6 +163,8 @@ static ssize_t show_temp(struct device *dev,
/* Check whether the time interval has elapsed */
if (!tdata->valid || time_after(jiffies, tdata->last_updated + HZ)) {
+ if (!housekeeping_cpu(tdata->cpu, HK_TYPE_MISC))
+ return -EINVAL;
rdmsr_on_cpu(tdata->cpu, tdata->status_reg, &eax, &edx);
/*
* Ignore the valid bit. In all observed cases the register
