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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805021731550.6003@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 17:34:06 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: Fix permissions for available_clocksource
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:36:37PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 May 2008, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> > >
> > > File permissions for
> > > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
> > > are 600 which allows write access. But this is in fact a read only
> > > file. So change permissions to 400.
> >
> > Indeed. The question is whether we should make this 444. There is no
> > harm, when users can read the info. Same applies for the
> > current_clocksource entry, making it 644 should be fine.
>
> Sure, I can send an on-top patch for this.
Yes, please.
> Btw. did you recently try writing "jiffies" to current_clocksource?
> That seems to be a trick to stop the clock...
Hmm, that's after the kernel switched to highres and/or nohz, right ?
This came up earlier, but it got dropped from my to todo list. :(
Will have a look.
Thanks,
tglx
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