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

    mfd: ab8500: world-writable debugfs register-* files

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:
     mfd-ab8500-world-writable-debugfs-register-files.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 44bdcb54df2714da18c4a0c6f711a350ab4ed93c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:23:43 +0300
Subject: mfd: ab8500: world-writable debugfs register-* files

From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>

commit 44bdcb54df2714da18c4a0c6f711a350ab4ed93c upstream.

Don't allow everybody to interact with hardware registers.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/mfd/ab8500-debugfs.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/mfd/ab8500-debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/ab8500-debugfs.c
@@ -585,18 +585,18 @@ static int __devinit ab8500_debug_probe(
                goto exit_destroy_dir;
 
        ab8500_bank_file = debugfs_create_file("register-bank",
-               (S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO), ab8500_dir, &plf->dev, &ab8500_bank_fops);
+               (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR), ab8500_dir, &plf->dev, &ab8500_bank_fops);
        if (!ab8500_bank_file)
                goto exit_destroy_reg;
 
        ab8500_address_file = debugfs_create_file("register-address",
-               (S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO), ab8500_dir, &plf->dev,
+               (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR), ab8500_dir, &plf->dev,
                &ab8500_address_fops);
        if (!ab8500_address_file)
                goto exit_destroy_bank;
 
        ab8500_val_file = debugfs_create_file("register-value",
-               (S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO), ab8500_dir, &plf->dev, &ab8500_val_fops);
+               (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR), ab8500_dir, &plf->dev, &ab8500_val_fops);
        if (!ab8500_val_file)
                goto exit_destroy_address;
 


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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