linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: ISST: Check for admin capability for write commands

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Message-Id: <176823204446.9723.16853061782379668148.b4-ty@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:34:04 +0200
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: hansg@...nel.org, 
 Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: ISST: Check for admin capability for
 write commands

On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:07:29 -0800, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:

> 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.
> 
> [...]


Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
review-ilpo-next branch. Note it will show up in the public
platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo-next branch only once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

The list of commits applied:
[1/1] platform/x86: ISST: Check for admin capability for write commands
      commit: 3efbe492ed326acdeeadaa03ee9ed30fbe0894cf

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