From 277642dcca765a1955d4c753a5a315ff7f2eb09d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 17:00:53 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/module.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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; -- cgit v1.2.3