RE: [PATCH] MPBL0010 driver sysfs permissions wide open

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ACK.

This looks good to me.  

The use case for this driver is to configure the fail over behavior of
the clock hardware.  That should be done by the more privileged users.

Thanks,

--mgross

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Bellon [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:32 PM
>To: [email protected]; Gross, Mark;
>[email protected]
>Subject: [PATCH] MPBL0010 driver sysfs permissions wide open
>
>The MPBL0010 Telco clock driver (drivers/char/tlclk.c) uses 0222
(anyone
>can write) permissions on its writable sysfs entries. IMHO this is a
bit
>too wide open for proper security. The patch (against 2.6.16.1) alters
>the permissions to 0220 (owner and group can write).
>
>Signed-off-by: Mark Bellon <[email protected]>
>
>mark
>
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