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* [PATCH net-next] selftests: drv-net: ncdevmem: Open /dev/udmabuf O_RDONLY
@ 2026-07-22 20:54 T.J. Mercier
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From: T.J. Mercier @ 2026-07-22 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: andrew+netdev, davem, edumazet, kuba, pabeni
  Cc: netdev, linux-kernel, bobbyeshleman, T.J. Mercier

Write permissions on the /dev/udmabuf device file are not required to
issue ioctls and allocate udmabufs. Applications should be opening this
file as O_RDONLY. The BPF dmabuf_iter selftest already does this. [1]

Users are pointing to these selftests as examples of how use udmabuf,
and encountering permission errors on systems where write permissions
are not available on /dev/udmabuf. Apply the principle of least
privilege to selftests which use udmabuf by removing the write access
mode from drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c and drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c.

[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>
Reviewed-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c
index d96e8a3b5a65..ffe1d5c1fa4e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static struct memory_buffer *udmabuf_alloc(size_t size)
 
 	ctx->size = size;
 
-	ctx->devfd = open("/dev/udmabuf", O_RDWR);
+	ctx->devfd = open("/dev/udmabuf", O_RDONLY);
 	if (ctx->devfd < 0) {
 		pr_err("[skip,no-udmabuf: Unable to access DMA buffer device file]");
 		goto err_free_ctx;
-- 
2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog


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