powercap: restrict energy meter to root access
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: 95677a9a ("PowerCap: Fix mode for energy counter") Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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