linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: replace S

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <03c43ed43d0ec3ab42940bfffd4c3778bf5d0f11.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:11:08 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@...il.com>
Cc:     konrad.wilk@...cle.com, labbott@...hat.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        guptap@...eaurora.org, vbabka@...e.cz, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
        hannes@...xchg.org, rientjes@...gle.com, mhocko@...e.com,
        rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, dave@...olabs.net, hmclauchlan@...com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, pombredanne@...b.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: replace S_IRUGO with 0444

On Sat, 2018-04-07 at 19:47 +0100, Paul McQuade wrote:
> Fix checkpatch warnings about S_IRUGO being less readable than
> providing the permissions octal as '0444'.

Hey Paul.

I sent a cleanup a couple weeks ago to Andrew Morton for the
same thing.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/26/638

Andrew said he'd wait until after -rc1 is out.

btw: checkpatch can do this substitution automatically

cheers, Joe