Return-path: Received: from smtp.netsonic.fi ([194.29.192.26]:45812 "EHLO smtp.netsonic.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752148Ab0IBLEg (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:04:36 -0400 To: Michael Trimarchi Cc: Peter Korsgaard , Vipin Mehta , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, lrodriguez@atheros.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] ath6kl: add ath6kl driver for AR6003 chip References: <1283381473-20415-1-git-send-email-vmehta@atheros.com> <87tym8vdio.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <4C7F74A4.1080706@panicking.kicks-ass.org> From: Timo Juhani Lindfors Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:38:49 +0300 In-Reply-To: <4C7F74A4.1080706@panicking.kicks-ass.org> (Michael Trimarchi's message of "Thu\, 02 Sep 2010 11\:55\:48 +0200") Message-ID: <84hbi82zwm.fsf@sauna.l.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Michael Trimarchi writes: > Looking at the code I think that is basically the same. Does it then also suffer from the bug where a non-root user can sabotage your network connectivity by periodically disabling power_mode MAX_PERF_POWER? I'm not a kernel hacker but I could not see anything checking for root or CAP_NET_ADMIN in the proposed driver. The bug report for the git.openmoko.org branch is at http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2321