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authorDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2010-04-29 18:02:18 +0200
committerDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2010-04-29 18:02:18 +0200
commit48f1545448c2192d25e15360f1edcbe8e1974cd2 (patch)
treefa8179b6c86c8c95fc740460f3ab07adb6506bbe
parente67a8350da61353ed744d2e39d344ec80d1a3c23 (diff)
downloadcpufrequtils-48f1545448c2192d25e15360f1edcbe8e1974cd2.tar.gz
aperf: fail early if user may not access MSR.
Based on a suggestion by Thomas Renninger. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
-rw-r--r--utils/aperf.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/utils/aperf.c b/utils/aperf.c
index 893e8eb..063f4a4 100644
--- a/utils/aperf.c
+++ b/utils/aperf.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
- ret = access(msr_path, F_OK);
+ ret = access(msr_path, R_OK);
if (ret < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error reading %s, load/enable msr.ko\n", msr_path);
goto out;