VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms.
Summary of http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/14/363 :
Ted: module_param(queue_depth, int, 444)
Joe: 0444!
Rusty: User perms >= group perms >= other perms?
Joe: CLASS_ATTR, DEVICE_ATTR, SENSOR_ATTR and SENSOR_ATTR_2?
Side effect of stricter permissions means removing the unnecessary
S_IFREG from several callers.
Note that the BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perm) & 2) test was removed: a fair
number of drivers fail this test, so that will be the debate for a
future patch.
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> for drivers/pci/slot.c
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 4710900..4679edd 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -842,4 +842,12 @@
# define REBUILD_DUE_TO_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
#endif
+/* Permissions on a sysfs file: you didn't miss the 0 prefix did you? */
+#define VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(perms) \
+ (BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perms) < 0) + \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perms) > 0777) + \
+ /* User perms >= group perms >= other perms */ \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(((perms) >> 6) < (((perms) >> 3) & 7)) + \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((((perms) >> 3) & 7) < ((perms) & 7)) + \
+ (perms))
#endif