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authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2005-04-18 21:16:59 -0700
committerGreg KH <greg@press.kroah.org>2005-04-18 21:16:59 -0700
commit1d66c64c3cee10a465cd3f8bd9191bbeb718f650 (patch)
tree1ef3e58b8ff25f850c5bf9bbdce08001751662c5 /drivers
parent86b5ac878d4a63c772d03c5017b72cc799a8f2f2 (diff)
[PATCH] I2C: Fix incorrect sysfs file permissions in it87 and via686a drivers
The it87 and via686a hardware monitoring drivers each create a sysfs file named "alarms" in R/W mode, while they should really create it in read-only mode. Since we don't provide a store function for these files, write attempts to these files will do something undefined (I guess) and bad (I am sure). My own try resulted in a locked terminal (where I attempted the write) and a 100% CPU load until next reboot. As a side note, wouldn't it make sense to check, when creating sysfs files, that readable files have a non-NULL show method, and writable files have a non-NULL store method? I know drivers are not supposed to do stupid things, but there is already a BUG_ON for several conditions in sysfs_create_file, so maybe we could add two more? Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/i2c/chips/via686a.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c b/drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c
index 3d484a7aff1..cf7e6898754 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/it87.c
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ static ssize_t show_alarms(struct device *dev, char *buf)
struct it87_data *data = it87_update_device(dev);
return sprintf(buf,"%d\n", ALARMS_FROM_REG(data->alarms));
}
-static DEVICE_ATTR(alarms, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_alarms, NULL);
+static DEVICE_ATTR(alarms, S_IRUGO, show_alarms, NULL);
static ssize_t
show_vrm_reg(struct device *dev, char *buf)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/via686a.c b/drivers/i2c/chips/via686a.c
index ecd1e1de3f0..6614a59cecd 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/chips/via686a.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/via686a.c
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ static ssize_t show_alarms(struct device *dev, char *buf) {
struct via686a_data *data = via686a_update_device(dev);
return sprintf(buf,"%d\n", ALARMS_FROM_REG(data->alarms));
}
-static DEVICE_ATTR(alarms, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, show_alarms, NULL);
+static DEVICE_ATTR(alarms, S_IRUGO, show_alarms, NULL);
/* The driver. I choose to use type i2c_driver, as at is identical to both
smbus_driver and isa_driver, and clients could be of either kind */