From: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
To: "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>,
sumit.semwal@linaro.org, benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com,
Brian.Starkey@arm.com, jstultz@google.com,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Cc: shuah@kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kselftests: dmabuf-heaps: Open heap device files O_RDONLY
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:51:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01e64e83-486f-49fe-aa1f-c28ab0bf66ee@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260811204123.3198370-1-tjmercier@google.com>
On 8/11/26 22:41, T.J. Mercier wrote:
> Write permissions on the /dev/dma_heap/* device files are not required
> to issue ioctls and allocate dmabufs. Applications should be opening
> these file as O_RDONLY. The BPF dmabuf_iter selftest already does
> this. [1]
>
> Users are pointing to these selftests as examples of how use dmabuf,
> and encountering permission errors on systems where write permissions
> are not available on /dev/dma_heap/*. Apply the principle of least
> privilege to selftests which open dmabuf heaps by removing the write
> access mode and using O_RDONLY for the open() instead.
>
> The same is true for the vgem test using /dev/dri/card.
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/dmabuf_iter.c?h=v7.1#n49
>
> Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/dmabuf-heap.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/dmabuf-heap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/dmabuf-heap.c
> index fc9694fc4e89..45b420e37c97 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/dmabuf-heap.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/dmabuf-heaps/dmabuf-heap.c
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static int open_vgem(void)
>
> snprintf(name, 80, "%s%u", drmstr, i);
>
> - fd = open(name, O_RDWR);
> + fd = open(name, O_RDONLY);
> if (fd < 0)
> continue;
>
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static int dmabuf_heap_open(char *name)
> if (ret < 0)
> ksft_exit_fail_msg("snprintf failed! %d\n", ret);
>
> - fd = open(buf, O_RDWR);
> + fd = open(buf, O_RDONLY);
> if (fd < 0)
> ksft_exit_fail_msg("open %s failed: %s\n", buf, strerror(errno));
>
>
> base-commit: 9a11db68872055e6ead919bad04d6330851c522d
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-12 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-11 20:41 [PATCH] kselftests: dmabuf-heaps: Open heap device files O_RDONLY T.J. Mercier
2026-08-11 20:57 ` John Stultz
2026-08-12 8:51 ` Christian König [this message]
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