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PM / Sleep: Require CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND to use wake_lock/wake_unlock
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:00:58 +0000 (00:00 +0200)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:00:58 +0000 (00:00 +0200)
Require processes wanting to use the wake_lock/wake_unlock sysfs
files to have the CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND capability, which also is
required for the eventpoll EPOLLWAKEUP flag to be effective, so that
all interfaces related to blocking autosleep depend on the same
capability.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.man-pages@gmail.com>
kernel/power/wakelock.c

index c8fba3380076afd8db340855340e5886b8497dc6..8f50de394d22b30090d1cf62cd3fd3069d451d57 100644 (file)
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  * manipulate wakelocks on Android.
  */
 
+#include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
@@ -188,6 +189,9 @@ int pm_wake_lock(const char *buf)
        size_t len;
        int ret = 0;
 
+       if (!capable(CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND))
+               return -EPERM;
+
        while (*str && !isspace(*str))
                str++;
 
@@ -231,6 +235,9 @@ int pm_wake_unlock(const char *buf)
        size_t len;
        int ret = 0;
 
+       if (!capable(CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND))
+               return -EPERM;
+
        len = strlen(buf);
        if (!len)
                return -EINVAL;