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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-11-12 17:00:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-11-12 17:00:53 -0800 |
| commit | 277642dcca765a1955d4c753a5a315ff7f2eb09d (patch) | |
| tree | 6443f09ef88b26e8742bf1abfb2ee4c71fb91a39 | |
| parent | 9d5604101e40c1d9d020384de11f0d68398c8844 (diff) | |
modules: make sysfs attribute files readable by owner only
This code goes back to the historical bitkeeper tree commit 3f7b0672086
("Module section offsets in /sys/module"), where Jonathan Corbet wanted
to show people how to debug loadable modules.
See
https://lwn.net/Articles/88052/
from June 2004.
To expose the required load address information, Jonathan added the
sections subdirectory for every module in /sys/modules, and made them
S_IRUGO - readable by everybody.
It was a more innocent time, plus those S_IRxxx macro names are a lot
more confusing than the octal numbers are, so maybe it wasn't even
intentional. But here we are, thirteen years later, and I'll just change
it to S_IRUSR instead.
Let's see if anybody even notices.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index de66ec825992..fdb3a6aca363 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1516,7 +1516,7 @@ static void add_sect_attrs(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) sattr->mattr.show = module_sect_show; sattr->mattr.store = NULL; sattr->mattr.attr.name = sattr->name; - sattr->mattr.attr.mode = S_IRUGO; + sattr->mattr.attr.mode = S_IRUSR; *(gattr++) = &(sattr++)->mattr.attr; } *gattr = NULL; |