From df358e1bad63f47ef3d399f8193bdc5a59d3d747 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:38:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] CPU online file permission Is there a reason why the "online" file in the subdirectories for the CPUs in /sys/devices/system isn't world-readable? I cannot imagine it to be security relevant especially now that a getcpu() syscall can be used to determine what CPUa thread runs on. The file is useful to correctly implement the sysconf() function to return the number of online CPUs. In the presence of hotplug we currently cannot provide this information. The patch below should to it. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/cpu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c index fe7ef3394144..40545071e3c9 100644 --- a/drivers/base/cpu.c +++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static ssize_t store_online(struct sys_device *dev, const char *buf, ret = count; return ret; } -static SYSDEV_ATTR(online, 0600, show_online, store_online); +static SYSDEV_ATTR(online, 0644, show_online, store_online); static void __devinit register_cpu_control(struct cpu *cpu) { -- 2.39.5