Re: patch "Staging: iio: adis16220: fix up some sysfs attribute permissions" added to staging tree

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On 11/18/10 17:19, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 05:05:05PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 11/16/10 19:25, gregkh@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>>
>>>     Staging: iio: adis16220: fix up some sysfs attribute permissions
>>>
>>> to my staging git tree which can be found at
>>>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6.git
>>> in the staging-linus branch.
>>>
>>> The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
>>> (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
>>>
>>> The patch will hopefully also will be merged in Linus's tree for the
>>> next -rc kernel release.
>>>
>>> If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>> >From 1d904e8950c86e670ace237eaea1d48cd81e94df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:19:53 -0800
>>> Subject: Staging: iio: adis16220: fix up some sysfs attribute permissions
>>>
>>> They should not be writable by any user
>> Sorry Greg, it may be jet lag related, but I really don't see how this change
>> makes sense...  Doesn't this take a write only parameter and make it read only
>> with no read function defined?  Was the intent to restrict who could write
>> to this attribute?
> 
> Ah crap.
> 
>>>  #define IIO_DEV_ATTR_CAPTURE(_store)				\
>>> -	IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(capture, S_IWUGO, NULL, _store, 0)
>>> +	IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(capture, S_IRUSR, NULL, _store, 0)
> 
> This should be S_IWUSR, right?
Equivalent with that in and I'm happy to add my ack. 

Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Jonathan
> 
> Did I just get all of these wrong?  I'll go verify them...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

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