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authorEduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com>2013-03-26 21:38:34 +0000
committerZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>2013-04-02 21:34:42 +0800
commit8837295a73f3500b32e18f9862c7bdde0b958648 (patch)
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thermal: add a warning for temperature emulation feature
Because this feature is for debuging purposes, it is highly recommended to do not enable this on production systems. This patch adds warnings for system integrators, so that people are aware of this potential security issue. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt4
-rw-r--r--drivers/thermal/Kconfig4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
index 6859661c9d3..277530a5786 100644
--- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt
@@ -265,6 +265,10 @@ emul_temp
Unit: millidegree Celsius
WO, Optional
+ WARNING: Be careful while enabling this option on production systems,
+ because userland can easily disable the thermal policy by simply
+ flooding this sysfs node with low temperature values.
+
*****************************
* Cooling device attributes *
*****************************
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
index 2a19120c32b..fb0672baff4 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ config THERMAL_EMULATION
user can manually input temperature and test the different trip
threshold behaviour for simulation purpose.
+ WARNING: Be careful while enabling this option on production systems,
+ because userland can easily disable the thermal policy by simply
+ flooding this sysfs node with low temperature values.
+
config SPEAR_THERMAL
bool "SPEAr thermal sensor driver"
depends on PLAT_SPEAR