Re: [PATCH V14 5/7] driver-core: Introduce BIN_ATTR_ADMIN_{RO,RW}

[Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:04:22 -0700
ira.weiny@intel.com wrote:

> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
> 
> Many binary attributes need to limit access to CAP_SYS_ADMIN only; ie
> many binary attributes specify is_visible with 0400 or 0600.
> 
> Make setting the permissions of such attributes more explicit by
> defining BIN_ATTR_ADMIN_{RO,RW}.
> 
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński <kw@linux.com>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Seems sensible.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>

> 
> ---
> Changes from V12:
> 	Pick up review tag
> 	Bjorn:
> 		NOTE: this has a lot of similarities to
> 		https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210416205856.3234481-7-kw@linux.com/
> 		I'm not sure why that patch was not picked up.  But I've
> 		added Krzysztof as a suggested by if that is ok?
> 
> Changes from V11:
> 	New Patch
> ---
>  include/linux/sysfs.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
> index e3f1e8ac1f85..fd3fe5c8c17f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
> @@ -235,6 +235,22 @@ struct bin_attribute bin_attr_##_name = __BIN_ATTR_WO(_name, _size)
>  #define BIN_ATTR_RW(_name, _size)					\
>  struct bin_attribute bin_attr_##_name = __BIN_ATTR_RW(_name, _size)
>  
> +
> +#define __BIN_ATTR_ADMIN_RO(_name, _size) {					\
> +	.attr	= { .name = __stringify(_name), .mode = 0400 },		\
> +	.read	= _name##_read,						\
> +	.size	= _size,						\
> +}
> +
> +#define __BIN_ATTR_ADMIN_RW(_name, _size)					\
> +	__BIN_ATTR(_name, 0600, _name##_read, _name##_write, _size)
> +
> +#define BIN_ATTR_ADMIN_RO(_name, _size)					\
> +struct bin_attribute bin_attr_##_name = __BIN_ATTR_ADMIN_RO(_name, _size)
> +
> +#define BIN_ATTR_ADMIN_RW(_name, _size)					\
> +struct bin_attribute bin_attr_##_name = __BIN_ATTR_ADMIN_RW(_name, _size)
> +
>  struct sysfs_ops {
>  	ssize_t	(*show)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, char *);
>  	ssize_t	(*store)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, const char *, size_t);