efi/esrt: Allow ESRT access without CAP_SYS_ADMIN

Access to the files in /sys/firmware/efi/esrt has been restricted to
CAP_SYS_ADMIN since support for ESRT was added, but this seems overly
restrictive given that the files are read-only and just provide
information about UEFI firmware updates.

Remove the CAP_SYS_ADMIN restriction so that a non-root process can read
the files, provided a suitably-privileged process changes the file
ownership first. The files are still read-only and still owned by root
by default.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bishop <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>

Author: nicholasbishop

drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c

@@ -95,10 +95,6 @@ static ssize_t esre_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj,
 	struct esre_entry *entry = to_entry(kobj);
 	struct esre_attribute *attr = to_attr(_attr);
 
-	/* Don't tell normal users what firmware versions we've got... */
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-		return -EACCES;
-
 	return attr->show(entry, buf);
 }