Re: [PATCH] sysfs: change permissions for /sys from 0755 to 0555

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 04 2012 - 19:31:37 EST


On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:34:50PM +0400, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> There is a misleading difference between /proc and /sys permissions,
> /proc is 0555 and /sys is 0755. But
> as it is impossible to create or unlink something in /sys it would
> be nice to have same permissions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vitty@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/sysfs/mount.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/sysfs/mount.c b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
> index 4974995..9d56fdd 100644
> --- a/fs/sysfs/mount.c
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ struct sysfs_dirent sysfs_root = {
> .s_name = "",
> .s_count = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
> .s_flags = SYSFS_DIR,
> - .s_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
> + .s_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
> .s_ino = 1,

The tabs are all converted to spaces here, making this impossible to
apply :(

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