linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] staging: gasket: replace symbolic permissions

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Message-Id: <20200622073612.12282-1-rodolfovillordo@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 07:36:12 +0000
From:   "Rodolfo C. Villordo" <rodolfovillordo@...il.com>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     rodolfovillordo@...il.com, Rob Springer <rspringer@...gle.com>,
        Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>,
        Ben Chan <benchan@...omium.org>, Richard Yeh <rcy@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] staging: gasket: replace symbolic permissions

WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
+               .attr = __ATTR(_name, S_IRUGO, _show_function, NULL),          \
warning detected by checkpatch.pl

Unable to use __ATTR_RO(). Driver has multiple files using the same show
function:

$ grep GASKET_SYSFS_RO drivers/staging/gasket/*
drivers/staging/gasket/apex_driver.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(node_0_page_table_entries, sysfs_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/apex_driver.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(node_0_simple_page_table_entries, sysfs_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/apex_driver.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(node_0_num_mapped_pages, sysfs_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(bar_offsets, gasket_sysfs_data_show, ATTR_BAR_OFFSETS),
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(bar_sizes, gasket_sysfs_data_show, ATTR_BAR_SIZES),
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(driver_version, gasket_sysfs_data_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(framework_version, gasket_sysfs_data_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(device_type, gasket_sysfs_data_show, ATTR_DEVICE_TYPE),
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(revision, gasket_sysfs_data_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(pci_address, gasket_sysfs_data_show, ATTR_PCI_ADDRESS),
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(status, gasket_sysfs_data_show, ATTR_STATUS),
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(is_device_owned, gasket_sysfs_data_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(device_owner, gasket_sysfs_data_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(write_open_count, gasket_sysfs_data_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(reset_count, gasket_sysfs_data_show, ATTR_RESET_COUNT),
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c:   GASKET_SYSFS_RO(user_mem_ranges, gasket_sysfs_data_show,
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_interrupt.c:      GASKET_SYSFS_RO(interrupt_counts, interrupt_sysfs_show,

Signed-off-by: Rodolfo C. Villordo <rodolfovillordo@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h
index ab5aa351d555..d5e167dfbe76 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ struct gasket_sysfs_attribute {
 
 #define GASKET_SYSFS_RO(_name, _show_function, _attr_type)                     \
 	{                                                                      \
-		.attr = __ATTR(_name, S_IRUGO, _show_function, NULL),          \
+		.attr = __ATTR(_name, 0444, _show_function, NULL),          \
 		.data.attr_type = _attr_type                                   \
 	}
 
-- 
2.17.1