powerpc/papr_scm: Limit the readability of 'perf_stats' sysfs attribute
The newly introduced 'perf_stats' attribute uses the default access mode of 0444, allowing non-root users to access performance stats of an nvdimm and potentially force the kernel into issuing a large number of expensive hypercalls. Since the information exposed by this attribute cannot be cached it is better to ward off access to this attribute from users who don't need to access to these performance statistics. Hence update the access mode of 'perf_stats' attribute to be only readable by root users. Fixes: 2d02bf83 ("powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP") Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200907110540.21349-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
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