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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
	Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@open-nandra.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] staging: ft1000: Convert char device to debugfs.
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:35:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101210173533.GB2505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101209104336.GT10623@bicker>

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:43:36PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
 > > +	file = debugfs_create_file("device", S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO, dir,
 >                                                        ^^^^^^^
 > > +					NULL, &ft1000fops);
 > 
 > Don't make this world writeable.

we should probably make checkpatch catch this.




Exporting world writable sysfs/debugfs files is usually a bad thing.
Warn about it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e3c7fc0..5075005 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2892,6 +2892,11 @@ sub process {
 				ERROR("lockdep_no_validate class is reserved for device->mutex.\n" . $herecurr);
 			}
 		}
+
+		if ($line =~ /debugfs_create_file.*S_IWUGO/ ||
+		    $line =~ /DEVICE_ATTR.*S_IWUGO/ ) {
+			WARN("Exporting world writable files is usually an error. Consider more restrictive permissions.\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
 	}
 
 	# If we have no input at all, then there is nothing to report on

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-10 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-09 10:26 [PATCH 0/8] Use debugfs for debugging purposes Marek Belisko
2010-12-09 10:26 ` [PATCH 1/8] staging: ft1000: Convert char device to debugfs Marek Belisko
2010-12-09 10:43   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-12-10 17:35     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2010-12-10 18:04       ` Greg KH
2010-12-09 10:26 ` [PATCH 2/8] staging: ft1000: Fix private data pointer usage Marek Belisko
2010-12-09 10:26 ` [PATCH 3/8] staging: ft1000: Remove unused pdevobj array Marek Belisko
2010-12-09 10:26 ` [PATCH 4/8] staging: ft1000: Remove unused variable Marek Belisko
2010-12-09 10:26 ` [PATCH 5/8] staging: ft1000: Fix camelcase functions and variables Marek Belisko
2010-12-09 10:26 ` [PATCH 6/8] staging: ft1000: Remove dead code Marek Belisko
2010-12-09 10:26 ` [PATCH 7/8] staging: ft1000: Remove unused headers Marek Belisko
2010-12-09 10:26 ` [PATCH 8/8] staging: ft1000: Fix debug messages Marek Belisko

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