[v2] PCI/sysfs: Change read permissions for VPD attributes

Commit Message

Leon Romanovsky Nov. 13, 2024, 12:59 p.m. UTC

From: Leon Romanovsky <[e-mail]>

The Vital Product Data (VPD) attribute is not readable by regular
user without root permissions. Such restriction is not needed at
all for Mellanox devices, as data presented in that VPD is not
sensitive and access to the HW is safe and well tested.

This change changes the permissions of the VPD attribute to be accessible
for read by all users for Mellanox devices, while write continue to be
restricted to root only.

The main use case is to remove need to have root/setuid permissions
while using monitoring library [1].

[leonro@vm ~]$ lspci |grep nox
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT2910 Family [ConnectX-7]

Before:
[leonro@vm ~]$ ls -al /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:09.0/vpd
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 13 12:30 /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:09.0/vpd
After:
[leonro@vm ~]$ ls -al /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:09.0/vpd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 13 12:30 /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:09.0/vpd

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/management-library-nvml
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <[e-mail]>
---
Changelog:
v2:
 * Another implementation to make sure that user is presented with
   correct permissions without need for driver intervention.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]
 * Changed implementation from open-read-to-everyone to be opt-in
 * Removed stable and Fixes tags, as it seems like feature now.
v0:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/
---
 drivers/pci/vpd.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/pci/vpd.c b/drivers/pci/vpd.c
index e4300f5f304f..9d5a35737abf 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/vpd.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/vpd.c
@@ -332,6 +332,14 @@  static umode_t vpd_attr_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj,
 	if (!pdev->vpd.cap)
 		return 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * Mellanox devices have implementation that allows VPD read by
+	 * unprivileged users, so just add needed bits to allow read.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(a->attr.mode != 0600);
+	if (unlikely(pdev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_MELLANOX))
+		return a->attr.mode + 0044;
+
 	return a->attr.mode;
 }