linux-kernel - [46/74] drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c: world-writable sysfs nvram file

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Message-Id: <20110413155147.887204980@clark.kroah.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:51:10 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
	Andy Sharp <andy.sharp@...tor.com>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>
Subject: [46/74] drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c: world-writable sysfs nvram file

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

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

commit 49d50fb1c28738ef6bad0c2b87d5355a1653fed5 upstream.

Don't allow everybogy to write to NVRAM.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Cc: Andy Sharp <andy.sharp@...tor.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ ds1511_nvram_write(struct kobject *kobj,
 static struct bin_attribute ds1511_nvram_attr = {
 	.attr = {
 		.name = "nvram",
-		.mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO,
+		.mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
 	},
 	.size = DS1511_RAM_MAX,
 	.read = ds1511_nvram_read,


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