linux-kernel - [34-longterm 042/196] drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c: world-writable sysfs nvram file

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Message-Id: <1331597724-31358-43-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:12:50 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
	Andy Sharp <andy.sharp@...tor.com>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: [34-longterm 042/196] drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c: world-writable sysfs nvram file

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

                   -------------------
    This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
    If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
                   -------------------

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: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c
index 06b8566..fad05bd 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ ds1511_nvram_write(struct kobject *kobj, struct bin_attribute *bin_attr,
 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,
-- 
1.7.9.3

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