This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hwmon: (amd_energy) modify the visibility of the counters
to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
hwmon-amd_energy-modify-the-visibility-of-the-counters.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 60268b0e8258fdea9a3c9f4b51e161c123571db3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:51:59 +0530
Subject: hwmon: (amd_energy) modify the visibility of the counters
From: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@xxxxxxx>
commit 60268b0e8258fdea9a3c9f4b51e161c123571db3 upstream.
This patch limits the visibility to owner and groups only for the
energy counters exposed through the hwmon based amd_energy driver.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201112172159.8781-1-nchatrad@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/amd_energy.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static umode_t amd_energy_is_visible(con
enum hwmon_sensor_types type,
u32 attr, int channel)
{
- return 0444;
+ return 0440;
}
static int energy_accumulator(void *p)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nchatrad@xxxxxxx are
queue-5.9/hwmon-amd_energy-modify-the-visibility-of-the-counters.patch
