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David Brownell a4b1d50e61 RTCs: handle NVRAM better
Several of the RTC drivers are exporting binary "nvram" files in sysfs.  Such
NVRAM (or on many systems, EEPROM) data is often initialized during system
manufacture to hold data about identity (serial numbers, Ethernet addresses,
etc), configuration, calibration, and so forth.

This patch improves integrity and security of those files:

  - Correctly initializes the size in one of the two cases where
    that was not yet being done.

  - Improves system security/integrity by making this state not
    be world-writable by default.

Letting arbitrary userspace code mangle such state by default is at least Not
A Good Thing; and it could sometimes be worse, depending on the particular
data that might be corrupted.  (I disregard the paranoiac "don't let anyone
read it either" approach.  Anyone storing passwords in such memory doesn't
really care about security.)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Torsten Ertbjerg Rasmussen <tr@newtec.dk>
Cc: Mark Zhan <rongkai.zhan@windriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Hommel <thomas.hommel@gefanuc.com>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:36 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 1273092655 rtc: m48t59 fix section mismatch warning
Change the name of this data to use a name (suffix) that is whitelisted
by MODPOST so that the section warning is fixed (not generated).

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1b140): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:m48t59_rtc_probe (between 'm48t59_rtc_platdrv' and 'm48t59_nvram_attr')

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05 15:12:32 -08:00
Mark Zhan 0439208a8a rtc-m48t59 driver NO_IRQ mode fixup
Since irq in m48t59_private struct is defined as 'unsigned int', which will
make the following if sentence to be never true:

         if (m48t59->irq < 0)
                  m48t59->irq = NO_IRQ;

And thus it will make the m48t59_rtc_probe() is failed when the driver is
working in a no irq mode:

Signed-off-by: Mark Zhan <rongkai.zhan@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:44 -07:00
Mark Zhan 2e774c7caf rtc: add support for the ST M48T59 RTC
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: x86_64 build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: The acpi guys changed the bin_attribute code]
Signed-off-by: Mark Zhan <rongkai.zhan@windriver.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:09 -07:00