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SubjectRE: [PATCH] [SCSI] megaraid_sas: remove sysfs dbg_lvl world writeable permissions
How do you turn on poll_mode_io?

Thanks,

Bo Yang

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From: Eugene Teo [eteo@redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:08 PM
To: Casey Dahlin
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Bryn M. Reeves; DL-MegaRAID Linux; James E.J. Bottomley; Andrew Morton; Yang Hongyang; Anand Gadiyar; Jiri Kosina; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] megaraid_sas: remove sysfs dbg_lvl world writeable permissions

On 12/02/2009 11:17 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> From: Bryn M. Reeves<bmr@redhat.com>
>
> /sys/bus/pci/drivers/megaraid_sas/poll_mode_io defaults to being
> world-writable, which seems bad (letting any user affect kernel driver
> behavior).
>
> This turns off group and user write permissions, so that on typical
> production systems only root can write to it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bryn M. Reeves<bmr@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Casey Dahlin<cdahlin@redhat.com>

CC: Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>

The subject should read: megaraid_sas: remove poll_mode_io world
writeable permissions instead, and this has been assigned with
CVE-2009-3939.

Thanks, Eugene
--
Eugene Teo / Red Hat Security Response Team

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