linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2 v2] char: misc: use octal permissions for the proc entry

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Date:   Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:22:57 +0200
From:   Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2 v2] char: misc: use octal permissions for the proc entry

Set the permissions for /proc/misc to 0444 explicitly. At the moment,
we're using 0 and have proc_create_data() convert this to 0444.
This fixes a checkpatch warning.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>
---
v2:
   separate patch for each checkpatch warning

 drivers/char/misc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index 3447b2e..3c633d5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int __init misc_init(void)
 	int err;
 	struct proc_dir_entry *ret;
 
-	ret = proc_create("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);
+	ret = proc_create("misc", 0444, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);
 	misc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "misc");
 	err = PTR_ERR(misc_class);
 	if (IS_ERR(misc_class))
-- 
1.7.10.4