[PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc/rtas: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:45:12 +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> A number of userspace utilities depend on making calls to RTAS to retrieve
> information and update various things.
> 
> The existing API through which we expose RTAS to userspace exposes more
> RTAS functionality than we actually need, through the sys_rtas syscall,
> which allows root (or anyone with CAP_SYS_ADMIN) to make any RTAS call they
> want with arbitrary arguments.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/2] powerpc/rtas: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bd59380c5ba4147dcbaad3e582b55ccfd120b764
[2/2] selftests/powerpc: Add a rtas_filter selftest
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/dc9af82ea0614bb138705d1f5230d53b3b1dfb83

cheers