The compatibility "eeprom" attribute is currently root-only no matter what the configuration says. The "nvmem" attribute does respect the setting of the root_only configuration bit, so do the same for "eeprom". Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> Fixes: b6c217ab9be6 ("nvmem: Add backwards compatibility support for older EEPROM drivers.") Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- Changes since V1: * Split into 2 patches, one to the at24 driver and one to the nvmem core. drivers/nvmem/nvmem-sysfs.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linux-5.2.orig/drivers/nvmem/nvmem-sysfs.c 2019-07-08 00:41:56.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-5.2/drivers/nvmem/nvmem-sysfs.c 2019-07-28 18:06:53.105140893 +0200 @@ -224,10 +224,17 @@ int nvmem_sysfs_setup_compat(struct nvme if (!config->base_dev) return -EINVAL; - if (nvmem->read_only) - nvmem->eeprom = bin_attr_ro_root_nvmem; - else - nvmem->eeprom = bin_attr_rw_root_nvmem; + if (nvmem->read_only) { + if (config->root_only) + nvmem->eeprom = bin_attr_ro_root_nvmem; + else + nvmem->eeprom = bin_attr_ro_nvmem; + } else { + if (config->root_only) + nvmem->eeprom = bin_attr_rw_root_nvmem; + else + nvmem->eeprom = bin_attr_rw_nvmem; + } nvmem->eeprom.attr.name = "eeprom"; nvmem->eeprom.size = nvmem->size; #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support