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platform/x86: ISST: Check for admin capability for write commands
authorSrinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 7 Jan 2026 06:07:29 +0000 (22:07 -0800)
committerIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:31:33 +0000 (16:31 +0200)
commit69cd1ca440a96c85dcedcddfa5e0af6012f60b8b
treeffa4802a24ae30f7dea3ff882b54d27716b29ae8
parentdc7901b5a1563a9c9eb29b3b0b0dac3162065cd8
platform/x86: ISST: Check for admin capability for write commands

In some SST deployments, administrators want to allow reading SST
capabilities for non-root users. This can be achieved by changing file
permissions for "/dev/isst_interface", but they still want to prevent
any changes to the SST configuration by non-root users.

This capability was available before for non-TPMI SST. Extend the same
capability for TPMI SST by adding a check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN for all
write commands.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107060729.1634420-1-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
drivers/platform/x86/intel/speed_select_if/isst_tpmi_core.c