tree cb610c1174fee08018de8bf840eba3defde50e00
parent 053ea640818812313892ec4f370f5cfac42fd355
author Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> 1466204085 +0200
committer Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> 1466279998 -0700

hwmon: (dell-smm) Restrict fan control and serial number to CAP_SYS_ADMIN by default

For security reasons ordinary user must not be able to control fan speed
via /proc/i8k by default. Some malicious software running under "nobody"
user could be able to turn fan off and cause HW problems. So this patch
changes default value of "restricted" parameter to 1.

Also restrict reading of DMI_PRODUCT_SERIAL from /proc/i8k via "restricted"
parameter. It is because non root user cannot read DMI_PRODUCT_SERIAL from
sysfs file /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial.

Old non secure behaviour of file /proc/i8k can be achieved by loading this
module with "restricted" parameter set to 0.

Note that this patch has effects only for kernels compiled with CONFIG_I8K
and only for file /proc/i8k. Hwmon interface provided by this driver was
not changed and root access for setting fan speed was needed also before.

Reported-by: Mario Limonciello <Mario_Limonciello@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # will need backport
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>