linux-kernel - Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:15:40 +0100
From:	Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Stelian Pop <stelian@...ies.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Ismail Donmez <ismail@...dus.org.tr>,
	Andrea Gelmini <gelma@...ma.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Cacy Rodney <cacy-rodney-cacy@...n.pl>
Subject: Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 01:11:16AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Jan 5 2007 00:36, Stelian Pop wrote:
> >@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ static struct acpi_driver sony_acpi_driv
> > 
> > static acpi_handle sony_acpi_handle;
> > static struct proc_dir_entry *sony_acpi_dir;
> >+static struct acpi_device *sony_acpi_acpi_device = NULL;
> 
> acpi_acpi?
> 
> >@@ -310,7 +315,7 @@ static int sony_acpi_add(struct acpi_dev
> > 		    		 item->acpiset, &handle)))
> > 		    	continue;
> > 
> >-		item->proc = create_proc_entry(item->name, 0600,
> >+		item->proc = create_proc_entry(item->name, 0666,
> > 					       acpi_device_dir(device));
> > 		if (!item->proc) {
> > 			printk(LOG_PFX "unable to create proc entry\n");
> 
> Is this safe? I would not want normal users to poke on that.

Hmmm, seconded. It also seems quite a gratuitous change and I have a
different patch that takes care of permissions and the /proc stuff is
going away in any case.

-- 
mattia
:wq!
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