On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 16:35:40 +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote: > The newly introduced 'perf_stats' attribute uses the default access > mode of 0444 letting non-root users access performance stats of an > nvdimm and potentially force the kernel into issuing large number of > expensive HCALLs. Since the information exposed by this attribute > cannot be cached hence its better to ward of access to this attribute > from users who don't need to access these performance statistics. > > [...]
Applied to powerpc/fixes. [1/1] powerpc/papr_scm: Limit the readability of 'perf_stats' sysfs attribute https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/0460534b532e5518c657c7d6492b9337d975eaa3 cheers