linux-kernel - [PATCH] TTY: mxser, fix invalid module

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:18:09 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	alan@...ux.intel.com, jirislaby@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] TTY: mxser, fix invalid module_parm permissions

444 means 0674 and we do not definitely want that. Use S_IRUGO which
is much more safer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...abs.org>
---

Sorry for multiple copies (if any).

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

diff --git a/drivers/tty/mxser.c b/drivers/tty/mxser.c
index 8bc2651..bb2da4c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/mxser.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/mxser.c
@@ -2338,7 +2338,7 @@ static struct tty_port_operations mxser_port_ops = {
  */
 
 static bool allow_overlapping_vector;
-module_param(allow_overlapping_vector, bool, 444);
+module_param(allow_overlapping_vector, bool, S_IRUGO);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(allow_overlapping_vector, "whether we allow ISA cards to be configured such that vector overlabs IO ports (default=no)");
 
 static bool mxser_overlapping_vector(struct mxser_board *brd)
-- 
1.7.10.4


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