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Message-ID: <20190814053846.GA253360@google.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:38:46 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To: Kelsey Skunberg <skunberg.kelsey@...il.com>
Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
Bodong Wang <bodong@...lanox.com>,
Donald Dutile <ddutile@...hat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2 2/3] PCI: sysfs: Change
permissions from symbolic to octal
[+cc Bodong, Don, Greg for permission question]
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 02:45:12PM -0600, Kelsey Skunberg wrote:
> Symbolic permissions such as "(S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP)" are not
> preferred and octal permissions should be used instead. Change all
> symbolic permissions to octal permissions.
>
> Example of old:
>
> "(S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP)"
>
> Example of new:
>
> "0220"
> static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(sriov_totalvfs);
> -static DEVICE_ATTR(sriov_numvfs, (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP),
> - sriov_numvfs_show, sriov_numvfs_store);
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(sriov_numvfs, 0664, sriov_numvfs_show, sriov_numvfs_store);
> static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(sriov_offset);
> static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(sriov_stride);
> static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(sriov_vf_device);
> -static DEVICE_ATTR(sriov_drivers_autoprobe, (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP),
> - sriov_drivers_autoprobe_show, sriov_drivers_autoprobe_store);
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(sriov_drivers_autoprobe, 0664, sriov_drivers_autoprobe_show,
> + sriov_drivers_autoprobe_store);
Greg noticed that sriov_numvfs and sriov_drivers_autoprobe have
"unusual" permissions. These were added by:
0e7df22401a3 ("PCI: Add sysfs sriov_drivers_autoprobe to control VF driver binding")
1789382a72a5 ("PCI: SRIOV control and status via sysfs")
Kelsey's patch correctly preserves the existing permissions, but we
should double-check that they are the permissions they want, and
possibly add a comment about why they're different from the rest.
Bjorn
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