Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] sysfs: Only accept read/write permissions for file attributes

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:58:27AM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> For sysfs file attributes, only read and write permissions make sense.
> Mask provided attribute permissions accordingly and send a warning
> to the console if invalid permission bits are set.
> 
> This patch is originally from Guenter [1] and includes the fixup
> explained in the thread, that is printing permissions in octal format
> and limiting the scope of attributes to SYSFS_PREALLOC | 0664.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/19/599
> 
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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