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

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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 05:54:18PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> 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.

And yes, I got all 7 of these patches wrong, I'll go redo them :(

thanks for verifying and actually reviewing them, I appreciate it.

greg k-h
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