linux-kernel - [PATCH] ath5k: fix Security issue in DebugFS part of ath5k

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Message-Id: <1227324169-13260-1-git-send-email-crquan@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:22:49 +0800
From:	crquan@...il.com
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>,
	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>, ath5k-devel@...ts.ath5k.org
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ath5k: fix Security issue in DebugFS part of ath5k

From: Cheng Renquan <crquan@...il.com>

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12076

Remove any write access to groups and others, only keep write permission
to its owner, usually only root user.

Reported-by: Jérôme Poulin <jeromepoulin@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c
index 19980cb..ccaeb5c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c
@@ -417,19 +417,19 @@ ath5k_debug_init_device(struct ath5k_softc *sc)
 	sc->debug.debugfs_phydir = debugfs_create_dir(wiphy_name(sc->hw->wiphy),
 				ath5k_global_debugfs);
 
-	sc->debug.debugfs_debug = debugfs_create_file("debug", 0666,
+	sc->debug.debugfs_debug = debugfs_create_file("debug", S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
 				sc->debug.debugfs_phydir, sc, &fops_debug);
 
-	sc->debug.debugfs_registers = debugfs_create_file("registers", 0444,
+	sc->debug.debugfs_registers = debugfs_create_file("registers", S_IRUGO,
 				sc->debug.debugfs_phydir, sc, &fops_registers);
 
-	sc->debug.debugfs_tsf = debugfs_create_file("tsf", 0666,
+	sc->debug.debugfs_tsf = debugfs_create_file("tsf", S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
 				sc->debug.debugfs_phydir, sc, &fops_tsf);
 
-	sc->debug.debugfs_beacon = debugfs_create_file("beacon", 0666,
+	sc->debug.debugfs_beacon = debugfs_create_file("beacon", S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
 				sc->debug.debugfs_phydir, sc, &fops_beacon);
 
-	sc->debug.debugfs_reset = debugfs_create_file("reset", 0222,
+	sc->debug.debugfs_reset = debugfs_create_file("reset", S_IWUSR,
 				sc->debug.debugfs_phydir, sc, &fops_reset);
 }
 
-- 
1.6.0.4.758.g36c05

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