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| author | Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-10-02 00:34:10 +0530 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2013-10-03 17:22:53 +1000 |
| commit | d1211af3049f4c9c1d8d4eb8f8098cc4f4f0d0c7 (patch) | |
| tree | e7dedb4f171f28b2a07f4fc759a5a7de6fc1d1e1 /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | 8f21bd0090052e740944f9397e2be5ac7957ded7 (diff) | |
powerpc/sysfs: Disable writing to PURR in guest mode
arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c exports PURR with write permission.
This may be valid for kernel in phyp mode. But writing to
the file in guest mode causes crash due to a priviledge violation
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c index 27a90b99ef67..b4e667663d9b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include <asm/machdep.h> #include <asm/smp.h> #include <asm/pmc.h> +#include <asm/firmware.h> #include "cacheinfo.h" @@ -179,15 +180,25 @@ SYSFS_PMCSETUP(spurr, SPRN_SPURR); SYSFS_PMCSETUP(dscr, SPRN_DSCR); SYSFS_PMCSETUP(pir, SPRN_PIR); +/* + Lets only enable read for phyp resources and + enable write when needed with a separate function. + Lets be conservative and default to pseries. +*/ static DEVICE_ATTR(mmcra, 0600, show_mmcra, store_mmcra); static DEVICE_ATTR(spurr, 0400, show_spurr, NULL); static DEVICE_ATTR(dscr, 0600, show_dscr, store_dscr); -static DEVICE_ATTR(purr, 0600, show_purr, store_purr); +static DEVICE_ATTR(purr, 0400, show_purr, store_purr); static DEVICE_ATTR(pir, 0400, show_pir, NULL); unsigned long dscr_default = 0; EXPORT_SYMBOL(dscr_default); +static void add_write_permission_dev_attr(struct device_attribute *attr) +{ + attr->attr.mode |= 0200; +} + static ssize_t show_dscr_default(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) { @@ -394,8 +405,11 @@ static void register_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu) if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_MMCRA)) device_create_file(s, &dev_attr_mmcra); - if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_PURR)) + if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_PURR)) { + if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR)) + add_write_permission_dev_attr(&dev_attr_purr); device_create_file(s, &dev_attr_purr); + } if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_SPURR)) device_create_file(s, &dev_attr_spurr); |