linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] nilfs2: use octal for unreadable permission macro

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Date:   Mon, 30 Oct 2017 21:52:15 +0900
From:   Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@....ntt.co.jp>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-nilfs <linux-nilfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@....ntt.co.jp>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] nilfs2: use octal for unreadable permission macro

Replace S_IRWXUGO with 0777 because symbolic permissions are
considered harmful:

 https://lwn.net/Articles/696229/

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@....ntt.co.jp>
---
 fs/nilfs2/namei.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c b/fs/nilfs2/namei.c
index 515d13c..1a2894a 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/namei.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int nilfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	inode = nilfs_new_inode(dir, S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO);
+	inode = nilfs_new_inode(dir, S_IFLNK | 0777);
 	err = PTR_ERR(inode);
 	if (IS_ERR(inode))
 		goto out;
-- 
1.8.3.1