linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 6/6] pstore/ram: Adjust module param permissions to reflect reality

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Date:   Wed,  6 May 2020 14:15:23 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
        Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, jmorris@...ei.org,
        sashal@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/6] pstore/ram: Adjust module param permissions to reflect reality

A couple module parameters had 0600 permissions, but changing them would
have no impact on ramoops, so switch these to 0400 to reflect reality.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 fs/pstore/ram.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index b8dac1d04e96..1de9d68d5c24 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(mem_size,
 		"size of reserved RAM used to store oops/panic logs");
 
 static unsigned int mem_type;
-module_param(mem_type, uint, 0600);
+module_param(mem_type, uint, 0400);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(mem_type,
 		"set to 1 to try to use unbuffered memory (default 0)");
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_reason,
 		 "maximum reason for kmsg dump (default 2: Oops and Panic) ");
 
 static int ramoops_ecc;
-module_param_named(ecc, ramoops_ecc, int, 0600);
+module_param_named(ecc, ramoops_ecc, int, 0400);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ramoops_ecc,
 		"if non-zero, the option enables ECC support and specifies "
 		"ECC buffer size in bytes (1 is a special value, means 16 "
-- 
2.20.1