2011-02-04 12:24:08

by Vasily Kulikov

Subject: [PATCH 15/20] platform: x86: asus_acpi: world-writable procfs files

Don't allow everybody to change ACPI settings. The comment says that it
is done deliberatelly, however, the comment before disp_proc_write()
says that at least one of these setting is experimental.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
---
Compile tested only.

drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c | 8 +-------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c
index 4633fd8..fe49593 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus_acpi.c
@@ -1081,14 +1081,8 @@ static int asus_hotk_add_fs(struct acpi_device *device)
struct proc_dir_entry *proc;
mode_t mode;

- /*
- * If parameter uid or gid is not changed, keep the default setting for
- * our proc entries (-rw-rw-rw-) else, it means we care about security,
- * and then set to -rw-rw----
- */
-
if ((asus_uid == 0) && (asus_gid == 0)) {
- mode = S_IFREG | S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO;
+ mode = S_IFREG | S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP;
} else {
mode = S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP;
printk(KERN_WARNING " asus_uid and asus_gid parameters are "
--
1.7.0.4

2011-02-04 12:53:54

by Corentin Chary

Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/20] platform: x86: asus_acpi: world-writable procfs files

Acked-By: Corentin Chary <[email protected]>

Anyway, the driver is deprecated and will be removed someday.