linux-kernel - [PATCH] base: core: WARN() about bogus permissions on device attributes

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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:31:42 +0200
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
Subject: [PATCH] base: core: WARN() about bogus permissions on device attributes

Whenever a struct device_attribute is registered
with mismatched permissions - read permission without
a show routine or write permission without store
routine - we will issue a big warning so we catch
those early enough.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
---
 drivers/base/core.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index a235085..14e6a92 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -563,8 +563,15 @@ int device_create_file(struct device *dev,
 		       const struct device_attribute *attr)
 {
 	int error = 0;
-	if (dev)
+
+	if (dev) {
+		WARN(((attr->attr.mode & S_IWUGO) && !attr->store),
+				"Write permission without 'store'\n");
+		WARN(((attr->attr.mode & S_IRUGO) && !attr->show),
+				"Read permission without 'show'\n");
 		error = sysfs_create_file(&dev->kobj, &attr->attr);
+	}
+
 	return error;
 }
 
-- 
1.8.1.rc1.5.g7e0651a

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