This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tools/power turbostat: Fix warning upon failed /dev/cpu_dma_latency read
to the 6.8-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:
tools-power-turbostat-fix-warning-upon-failed-dev-cp.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f49e1d6c9722cf351d7c2844e1f53f22a39eee0d
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 19 12:25:42 2024 -0600
tools/power turbostat: Fix warning upon failed /dev/cpu_dma_latency read
[ Upstream commit b6fe938317eed58e8c687bd5965a956e15fb5828 ]
Previously a failed read of /dev/cpu_dma_latency erroneously complained
turbostat: capget(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) failed, try "# setcap cap_sys_admin=ep ./turbostat
This went unnoticed because this file is typically visible to root,
and turbostat was typically run as root.
Going forward, when a non-root user can run turbostat...
Complain about failed read access to this file only if --debug is used.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
index a4a40a6e1b957..3438ad938d7e4 100644
--- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
+++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
@@ -5545,7 +5545,8 @@ void print_dev_latency(void)
fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
- warnx("capget(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) failed, try \"# setcap cap_sys_admin=ep %s\"", progname);
+ if (debug)
+ warnx("Read %s failed", path);
return;
}
