linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfsd: Remove write permission from file content

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Message-ID: <20130104211204.GA14712@fieldses.org>
Date:	Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:12:05 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	ycnian@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd: Remove write permission from file content

On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 07:45:35PM +0800, ycnian@...il.com wrote:
> From: Yanchuan Nian <ycnian@...il.com>
> 
> The write function doesn't be implemented in file content, and it's meaningless
> to write data into this file directly. Remove write permission from it.

So does it really matter either way?

OK, applying, but I wonder.

--b.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Yanchuan Nian <ycnian@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/sunrpc/cache.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
> index 9afa439..9f84703 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
> @@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@ static int create_cache_proc_entries(struct cache_detail *cd, struct net *net)
>  			goto out_nomem;
>  	}
>  	if (cd->cache_show) {
> -		p = proc_create_data("content", S_IFREG|S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR,
> +		p = proc_create_data("content", S_IFREG|S_IRUSR,
>  				cd->u.procfs.proc_ent,
>  				&content_file_operations_procfs, cd);
>  		cd->u.procfs.content_ent = p;
> -- 
> 1.7.4.4
> 
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