Re: [PATCH v6 2/9] tpm: replace symbolic permission with octal for securityfs files

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Nov 14 2016 - 17:18:51 EST


On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 05:00:49AM -0500, Nayna Jain wrote:
> checkpatch.pl flags warning for symbolic permissions and suggests
> to replace with octal value.
>
> This patch changes securityfs pseudo files permission
> to octal values in tpm_bios_log_setup().
>
> Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <nayna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

/Jarkko

> ---
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog.c
> index 42b49c4..9467e31 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog.c
> @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ struct dentry **tpm_bios_log_setup(const char *name)
>
> bin_file =
> securityfs_create_file("binary_bios_measurements",
> - S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP, tpm_dir,
> + 0440, tpm_dir,
> (void *)&tpm_binary_b_measurements_seqops,
> &tpm_bios_measurements_ops);
> if (is_bad(bin_file))
> @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ struct dentry **tpm_bios_log_setup(const char *name)
>
> ascii_file =
> securityfs_create_file("ascii_bios_measurements",
> - S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP, tpm_dir,
> + 0440, tpm_dir,
> (void *)&tpm_ascii_b_measurements_seqops,
> &tpm_bios_measurements_ops);
> if (is_bad(ascii_file))
> --
> 2.5.0
>