I don't understand why mlx4_port1 and mlx4_port2 have world write
permissions on your system. I can't see this from the sources nor from
installing ofed-1.5.1 on my system. I agree though that the
permissions for port_trigger and clear_diag should be changed. We'll
push a fix to OFED 1.5.2.

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Sumeet Lahorani
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks. I realized that my earlier find command didn't capture all the files
> I was looking for. After your patch, the following still need to be
> addressed (all are mlx4 files)
>
> # find /sys -type f -perm -222
> /sys/class/infiniband/mlx4_0/diag_counters/clear_diag
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:13:00.0/port_trigger
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:13:00.0/mlx4_port2
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:13:00.0/mlx4_port1
>
> - Sumeet
>
> Or Gerlitz wrote:
>>
>> Sumeet Lahorani wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I see the following files created under /sys which are world writeable
>>> /sys/class/net/ib0/delete_child
>>> /sys/class/net/ib0/create_child
>>> At least the create_child & delete_child files appear to be dangerous to
>>> leave as world writeable because they result in resources allocations.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, this looks bad. The below patch fixes that, I tested it on 2.6.35-rc1
>>
>> [PATCH] make ipoib child entries non-world writable
>>
>> Sumeet Lahorani <[email protected]> reported that the ipoib child
>> entries are world writable, fix them to be root only writable
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <[email protected]>
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
>> b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
>> index df3eb8c..b4b2257 100644
>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
>> @@ -1163,7 +1163,7 @@ static ssize_t create_child(struct device *dev,
>>        return ret ? ret : count;
>>  }
>> -static DEVICE_ATTR(create_child, S_IWUGO, NULL, create_child);
>> +static DEVICE_ATTR(create_child, S_IWUSR, NULL, create_child);
>>  static ssize_t delete_child(struct device *dev,
>>                            struct device_attribute *attr,
>> @@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ static ssize_t delete_child(struct device *dev,
>>        return ret ? ret : count;
>>  }
>> -static DEVICE_ATTR(delete_child, S_IWUGO, NULL, delete_child);
>> +static DEVICE_ATTR(delete_child, S_IWUSR, NULL, delete_child);
>>  int ipoib_add_pkey_attr(struct net_device *dev)
>>  {
>>
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