Re: [PATCH V3 3/3] platform/x86: Intel PMT Telemetry capability driver

[David E. Box]

On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 10:39 +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On 14.07.2020 9:23, David E. Box wrote:

...

> > 
> > +static int pmt_telem_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
> > +{
> > +	struct pmt_telem_priv *priv;
> > +	struct pmt_telem_entry *entry;
> > +	struct pci_driver *pci_drv;
> > +	struct pci_dev *pci_dev;
> > +
> > +	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> 
> Thanks for supplying these patches.
> Are there any reasons not to expose this feature to CAP_PERFMON
> privileged
> processes too that currently have access to performance monitoring
> features
> of the kernel without root/CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials? This could be
> done by
> pefmon_capable() function call starting from v5.8+.

The new capability is well suited for this feature. I'll make the
change. Thanks.

David