From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Cotey Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:31:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] Staging: silicom: remove S_IWOTH from proc declaration Message-Id: <20120913023411.GA1529@elbert.example.com> List-Id: References: <20120912075733.GA26524@elgon.mountain> In-Reply-To: <20120912075733.GA26524@elgon.mountain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:57:33AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > We don't need these to be world writable or group writable. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter > --- > This is linux-next stuff. The code in bp_proc.c is ifdefed out, and I > wasn't able to compile it. > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/silicom/bp_proc.c b/drivers/staging/silicom/bp_proc.c > index 4fe862d..6ad4b27 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/silicom/bp_proc.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/silicom/bp_proc.c > @@ -106,8 +106,7 @@ bypass_proc_create_entry_sd(struct pfs_unit *pfs_unit_curr, > pfs_unit_curr->proc_entry = create_proc_entry(pfs_unit_curr->proc_name, > S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | > S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | > - S_IWGRP | S_IROTH | > - S_IWOTH, parent_pfs); > + S_IROTH, parent_pfs); > if (pfs_unit_curr->proc_entry = 0) { > > return -1; > diff --git a/drivers/staging/silicom/bp_mod.c b/drivers/staging/silicom/bp_mod.c > index 0d96196..6e999c7 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/silicom/bp_mod.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/silicom/bp_mod.c > @@ -7724,8 +7724,7 @@ bypass_proc_create_entry_sd(struct pfs_unit_sd *pfs_unit_curr, > pfs_unit_curr->proc_entry = create_proc_entry(pfs_unit_curr->proc_name, > S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | > S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | > - S_IWGRP | S_IROTH | > - S_IWOTH, parent_pfs); > + S_IROTH, parent_pfs); > if (pfs_unit_curr->proc_entry = 0) { > > return -1; I need to check my test setup tonight, but I do think apps need group write. Regards, Daniel Cotey