On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:11:10AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:44:41AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > We have a bunch of 'probe' sysctl's in parport, which are
> > readable. (world readable even). Make them write-only.
> > Without this, sysctl -a will try to read these files.
>
> ??
>
> This change is wrong. The probing happens at module load time, and
> the IEEE 1284 device IDs are stored for later retrieval to user space
> via these sysctls.
>
> They are backed by read-only variables. Reading does not trigger any
> device interaction.
>
> Make them 0400 if you think it's a security issue: but then,
> /proc/ide/hda/model etc should also get the same treatment.
It wasn't a security related change. As I mentioned above,
sysctl -a would fail to read them anyway when I last tried
(circa 2.6.9/10)
I'll try and reproduce without that patch later today.
Dave
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