----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- >>> Thanks for auditing the rest of these from my original patch. If this >>> is ok with userspace tools, it's fine with me, but I don't even have >>> this hardware to test with :) >> >> That's my fear. Michael, did you verify? > > I don't know any tools except the mtd-utils. So no.
openwrt folks have their own tooling, Anrdoid too. >> In general you need to be root to open these device files. >> So, I don't see a security problem here. > > Then this begs the question, why is this check there in > the first place? I fear historical reasons. As soon you can open the device node you can do evil things. > This come up because I was adding a OTPERASE which > was suggested that is was a "dangerous" command. So I > was puzzled why the ones above are considered "safe" ;) :-) Thanks, //richard