[TEST PATCH] staging: speakup: speakup_acntpc.c Consider octal permissions

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Nov 26 06:05:13 EST 2016


On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:03:00PM -0500, Walt Feasel wrote:
> Make suggested checkpatch modifications for
> WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO' are not preferred.
> Consider using octal permissions '0644'.
> WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are not preferred.
> Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Walt Feasel <waltfeasel at gmail.com>
> ---
> I am new to making trivial patches and do not make some
> for a few type of warnings.
> This is one of them as I am not fully certain that it is
> as easy as this.
> The replacing of 'S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO' with '0644' seems
> simple enough.
> However the adding of '_RW' to '__ATTR' to make '__ATTR_RW'
> I saw in a reply to a patch and am not sure that it would
> be relevant in this case.
> I also made a previous patch adding spaces around '|' and
> want to know if just replacing 'S_IWUSR|S_IRUGO' with
> '0644' in one shot would be acceptable since my being new
> and not fixing just one type of warning per patch.
> Seems straight forward but I have spammed other peoples
> email and the mailing list enough with improper patches.
> 
>  drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_acntpc.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_acntpc.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_acntpc.c
> index 27f812e..51281be 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_acntpc.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/speakup_acntpc.c
> @@ -56,28 +56,28 @@ static struct var_t vars[] = {
>  /* These attributes will appear in /sys/accessibility/speakup/acntpc. */
>  
>  static struct kobj_attribute caps_start_attribute =
> -	__ATTR(caps_start, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, spk_var_show, spk_var_store);
> +	__ATTR_RW(caps_start, 0644, spk_var_show, spk_var_store);

This breaks the build :(




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