[PATCH 00/20] world-writable files in sysfs and debugfs

James Bottomley James.Bottomley at suse.de
Mon Mar 14 22:26:05 EDT 2011


On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 23:23 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > Vasiliy Kulikov (20):
> >  mach-ux500: mbox-db5500: world-writable sysfs fifo file
> >  leds: lp5521: world-writable sysfs engine* files
> >  leds: lp5523: world-writable engine* sysfs files
> >  misc: ep93xx_pwm: world-writable sysfs files
> >  rtc: rtc-ds1511: world-writable sysfs nvram file
> >  scsi: aic94xx: world-writable sysfs update_bios file
> >  scsi: iscsi: world-writable sysfs priv_sess file
> 
> These are still not merged :(

OK, so I've not been tracking where we are in the dizzying ride on
security systems.  However, I thought we landed up in the privilege
separation arena using capabilities.  That means that world writeable
files aren't necessarily a problem as long as the correct capabilities
checks are in place, right?

James





More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list