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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cpupower: Correctly detect if running as root
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On Sunday, December 14, 2014 10:29:24 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, December 14, 2014 01:36:52 PM Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > Some operations, like frequency-set, need root privileges. However,
> > the way that this is detected is not correct. The getuid() is called,
> > while in fact geteuid() should be. This way we can allow
> > distributions or users to set SETUID flags on the cpupower binary if
> > they want to and let regular users change the cpu frequency governor.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
>
> An ACK from Thomas is needed.
Patch is correct, Thanks!

Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>

Thomas
>
> > ---
> >
> > tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower.c
> > b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower.c index 7cdcf88..9ea9143 100644
> > --- a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower.c
> > +++ b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower.c
> > @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
> >
> > }
> >
> > get_cpu_info(0, &cpupower_cpu_info);
> >
> > - run_as_root = !getuid();
> > + run_as_root = !geteuid();
> >
> > if (run_as_root) {
> >
> > ret = uname(&uts);
> > if (!ret && !strcmp(uts.machine, "x86_64") &&



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