linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] proc: warn if registering world writeable files

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Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:04:58 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: warn if registering world writeable files

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:26:10PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:32:17PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>  > +	WARN_ON(S_ISREG(mode) && (mode & S_IWOTH));
>  >  	ent->mode = mode;
>  >  	ent->nlink = nlink;
>  >  	atomic_set(&ent->count, 1);
> 
> Not sure about this. For the reason I mentioned in the checkpatch diff
> that this is "usually" a problem.  There may be some use cases where
> it may actually be ok.
> 
> (I'm having a hard time thinking up a justification though tbh)

Me too.

If it's for quick debugging, one can reassign ->mode after registering and
escape the warning.
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