linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ntsync: Set the permissions to be 0666

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Message-ID: <2025021456-easiness-facebook-636e@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:06:20 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Lothian <mike@...eburn.co.uk>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@...eweavers.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntsync: Set the permissions to be 0666

On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 12:28:00PM +0000, Mike Lothian wrote:
> This allows ntsync to be usuable by non-root processes out of the box

Are you sure you need/want that?  If so, why?  How did existing testing
not ever catch this?

thanks,

greg k-h