Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: catch all world writable debugfs_create_file

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 15:23 -0400, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> Currently checkpatch will fuss if one uses world writable settings in debugfs
> files by passing S_IWUGO but not when passing S_IWOTH, S_IRWXUGO or S_IALLUGO.
> This patch extends the check to catches all cases exporting world writable 
> files

Maybe the debugfs_create_file should be debugfs_create_\w+

And there are also these octal matches:

$ git grep -E -n "debugfs.*\b0[0-7][0-7][2367]"
arch/mips/cavium-octeon/oct_ilm.c:75:   show_dentry = debugfs_create_file("statistics", 0222, dir, NULL,
arch/mips/cavium-octeon/oct_ilm.c:82:   show_dentry = debugfs_create_file("reset", 0222, dir, NULL,
arch/powerpc/kvm/timing.c:226:  debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file(dbg_fname, 0666,
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_debugfs.c:376: file = debugfs_create_x64("err_inject", 0666, root, &cd->err_inject);
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_debugfs.c:382: file = debugfs_create_u32("ddcb_software_timeout", 0666, root,
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_debugfs.c:389: file = debugfs_create_u32("kill_timeout", 0666, root,
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_debugfs.c:461:         file = debugfs_create_u32(name, 0666, root,
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_debugfs.c:483: file = debugfs_create_u32("skip_recovery", 0666, root,
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_debugfs.c:490: file = debugfs_create_u32("use_platform_recovery", 0666, root,
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:2452:     debugfs_create_file("ps", 0666, data->debugfs, data, &hwsim_fops_ps);
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:2453:     debugfs_create_file("group", 0666, data->debugfs, data,
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:2456:             debugfs_create_file("dfs_simulate_radar", 0222,
drivers/power/axp288_fuel_gauge.c:333:  info->debug_file = debugfs_create_file("fuelgauge", 0666, NULL,
drivers/power/da9030_battery.c:191:     charger->debug_file = debugfs_create_file("charger", 0666, NULL,
kernel/trace/blktrace.c:499:    bt->msg_file = debugfs_create_file("msg", 0222, dir, bt, &blk_msg_fops);