Commit 3022c6a1 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: Introduce DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_{RO,RW}

A common pattern for using plain DEVICE_ATTR() instead of
DEVICE_ATTR_RO() and DEVICE_ATTR_RW() is for attributes that want to
limit read to only root.  I.e. many users of DEVICE_ATTR() are
specifying 0400 or 0600 for permissions.

Given the expectation that CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to access these
sensitive attributes and an explicit helper with the _ADMIN_ identifier
for DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_{RO,RW}.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159312906372.1850128.11611897078988158727.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 9ebcfadb
......@@ -128,8 +128,12 @@ ssize_t device_store_bool(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
__ATTR_PREALLOC(_name, _mode, _show, _store)
#define DEVICE_ATTR_RW(_name) \
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR_RW(_name)
#define DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_RW(_name) \
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR_RW_MODE(_name, 0600)
#define DEVICE_ATTR_RO(_name) \
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR_RO(_name)
#define DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_RO(_name) \
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR_RO_MODE(_name, 0400)
#define DEVICE_ATTR_WO(_name) \
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR_WO(_name)
#define DEVICE_ULONG_ATTR(_name, _mode, _var) \
......
......@@ -123,6 +123,13 @@ struct attribute_group {
.show = _name##_show, \
}
#define __ATTR_RW_MODE(_name, _mode) { \
.attr = { .name = __stringify(_name), \
.mode = VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(_mode) }, \
.show = _name##_show, \
.store = _name##_store, \
}
#define __ATTR_WO(_name) { \
.attr = { .name = __stringify(_name), .mode = 0200 }, \
.store = _name##_store, \
......
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