Commit d0a1865c authored by Nicholas Bishop's avatar Nicholas Bishop Committed by Ard Biesheuvel

efi/esrt: Allow ESRT access without CAP_SYS_ADMIN

Access to the files in /sys/firmware/efi/esrt has been restricted to
CAP_SYS_ADMIN since support for ESRT was added, but this seems overly
restrictive given that the files are read-only and just provide
information about UEFI firmware updates.

Remove the CAP_SYS_ADMIN restriction so that a non-root process can read
the files, provided a suitably-privileged process changes the file
ownership first. The files are still read-only and still owned by root
by default.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Bishop <nicholasbishop@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
parent d86ff333
......@@ -95,10 +95,6 @@ static ssize_t esre_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct esre_entry *entry = to_entry(kobj);
struct esre_attribute *attr = to_attr(_attr);
/* Don't tell normal users what firmware versions we've got... */
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EACCES;
return attr->show(entry, buf);
}
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