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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:06:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	segoon@...nwall.com, mjg@...hat.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	ak@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, tim.bird@...sony.com
Subject: [PATCH] [136/275] platform: x86: acer-wmi: world-writable sysfs threeg file

2.6.35-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>

commit b80b168f918bba4b847e884492415546b340e19d upstream.

Don't allow everybody to write to hardware registers.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

---
 drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c	2011-03-29 23:03:01.062272989 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c	2011-03-29 23:03:01.099272042 -0700
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@
 			return -EINVAL;
 	return count;
 }
-static DEVICE_ATTR(threeg, S_IWUGO | S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_bool_threeg,
+static DEVICE_ATTR(threeg, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_bool_threeg,
 	set_bool_threeg);
 
 static ssize_t show_interface(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
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