On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 05:33:16PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> there are today a number of SYSFS files with read permission set but
> can't really be read (tried with normal user and root). To make things
> simpler, I wrote a simple ruby script (see below) to check if the file
> is world writeable or if it has Read permission but throws an exception
> when read (note that I ignore files which return empty buffers since
> ruby cries about it).
>
> Here are some results from my desktop PC:
>
> $ ruby sysfs_errors.rb |wc -l
> 968
>
> # ruby sysfs_errors.rb | wc -l
> 1602
>
> 8<---------------------------- cut here --------------------------------
>
> Dir.glob("/sys/**/*").each do |file|
> next if File.directory?(file)
>
> if File.world_writable?(file)
> puts "#{file} is world-writable"
> end
>
> if File.readable?(file)
> begin
> File.open(file) { |f|
> result = f.readline
> }
> rescue EOFError
> nil
> rescue => e
> puts e.message
> end
> end
> end
>
> I wonder if that should be sorted out or should we leave it as is ?
They should be sorted out.
> If it helps in any way, I have printed below only the filenames
> (without path) so I could pipe it through uniq:
>
> act_mask
> audit
> autosuspend_delay_ms
> bind
This one the driver core creates, I'll fix that up.
The rest need paths to determine who to blame :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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