This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c: world-writable sysfs nvram file

to the 2.6.38-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drivers-rtc-rtc-ds1511.c-world-writable-sysfs-nvram-file.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 49d50fb1c28738ef6bad0c2b87d5355a1653fed5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:34:53 -0700
Subject: drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c: world-writable sysfs nvram file

From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>

commit 49d50fb1c28738ef6bad0c2b87d5355a1653fed5 upstream.

Don't allow everybogy to write to NVRAM.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Sharp <[email protected]>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1511.c
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ ds1511_nvram_write(struct file *filp, st
 static struct bin_attribute ds1511_nvram_attr = {
        .attr = {
                .name = "nvram",
-               .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO,
+               .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
        },
        .size = DS1511_RAM_MAX,
        .read = ds1511_nvram_read,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-2.6.38/econet-4-byte-infoleak-to-the-network.patch
queue-2.6.38/scsi_transport_iscsi-make-priv_sess-file-writeable-only-by-root.patch
queue-2.6.38/drivers-leds-leds-lp5521.c-world-writable-sysfs-engine-files.patch
queue-2.6.38/drivers-rtc-rtc-ds1511.c-world-writable-sysfs-nvram-file.patch
queue-2.6.38/mfd-ab3500-world-writable-debugfs-register-files.patch
queue-2.6.38/drivers-misc-ep93xx_pwm.c-world-writable-sysfs-files.patch
queue-2.6.38/bluetooth-bnep-fix-buffer-overflow.patch
queue-2.6.38/ipv6-netfilter-ip6_tables-fix-infoleak-to-userspace.patch
queue-2.6.38/mfd-ab3100-world-writable-debugfs-_priv-files.patch
queue-2.6.38/bridge-netfilter-fix-information-leak.patch
queue-2.6.38/mfd-ab8500-world-writable-debugfs-register-files.patch
queue-2.6.38/netfilter-ip_tables-fix-infoleak-to-userspace.patch
queue-2.6.38/netfilter-ipt_clusterip-fix-buffer-overflow.patch
queue-2.6.38/drivers-leds-leds-lp5523.c-world-writable-engine-sysfs-files.patch
queue-2.6.38/netfilter-arp_tables-fix-infoleak-to-userspace.patch
queue-2.6.38/bluetooth-sco-fix-information-leak-to-userspace.patch

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