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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] nvmem: core: make default user binary file root-access only

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On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 02:18:47PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/10/15 13:55, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 12:00:47PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> >>As required by many providers like at24/at25/mxs-ocotp/qfprom and may be
> >>other providers would want to allow root-only to read the nvmem content.
> >>So making the defaults to be root-only access would address the request
> >>and also provide flexibility to providers to specify there own permissions
> >>on top of the root-only using the perm flag in nvmem_config.
> >
> >Eeek, no, don't mess with different permissions, that's not ok, be
> >consistent and only allow root write access, that's why we have static
> >build-time checks to ensure you get this correct and do not accidentally
> >let a "normal" user access to things they shouldn't have access to.
> Thanks for your inputs,
> 
> Code as it is in mainline would provide a write permission to root-only and
> read to all the group.
> 
> Fixing/removing the group read permissions should stop normal user accessing
> the binary file.

Great, send a simple patch that does this and I'll be glad to queue it
up.

thanks,

greg k-h
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[PATCH v2 0/3] nvmem: make sysfs binary file permissions more flexible. Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2015-10-07 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/3] nvmem: core: make default user binary file root-access only Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2015-10-07 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] nvmem: core: make default user binary file  root-access only Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-10-07 13:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] nvmem: core: make default user binary file root-access  only Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2015-10-07 15:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] nvmem: core: make default user binary file  root-access only Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-10-07 18:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] nvmem: core: make default user binary file  root-access only Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-07 15:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] nvmem: core: make default user binary file root-access  only Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2015-10-07 15:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] nvmem: core: make default user binary file  root-access only Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-07 18:20 +0200

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