[PATCH 2/3] libmtd_legacy: don't open device in R/W

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 16:26:21 EST 2012


On legacy kernels with ROM devices, we can get mtdinfo errors like:

libmtd: error!: cannot open "/dev/mtd4"
        error 13 (Permission denied)
mtdinfo: error!: libmtd failed get MTD device 4 information
         error 13 (Permission denied)

We don't need O_RDRW access for informational ioctls(), so make this
O_RDONLY.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
---
 lib/libmtd_legacy.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libmtd_legacy.c b/lib/libmtd_legacy.c
index d3f1672..1ae9946 100644
--- a/lib/libmtd_legacy.c
+++ b/lib/libmtd_legacy.c
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ int legacy_get_dev_info(const char *node, struct mtd_dev_info *mtd)
 
 	mtd->mtd_num = mtd->minor / 2;
 
-	fd = open(node, O_RDWR);
+	fd = open(node, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd == -1)
 		return sys_errmsg("cannot open \"%s\"", node);
 
-- 
1.7.5.4




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