Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] pinctrl: use to octal permissions for debugfs files

From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Drew Fustini <drew@beagleboard.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>,
	Jason Kridner <jkridner@beagleboard.org>,
	Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@beagleboard.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] pinctrl: use to octal permissions for debugfs files
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:18:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VeJT0dPATD-Ux+JCEYxNTigbOn_6D_F1VQkfL=vuiCBPQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87437daafdd86fa5c765ff9b17b6c7b097f0c317.camel@perches.com>

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:30 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 23:49 -0800, Drew Fustini wrote:

> > -     debugfs_create_file("pinctrl-devices", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO,
> > +     debugfs_create_file("pinctrl-devices", 0400,
> >                           debugfs_root, NULL, &pinctrl_devices_fops);
>
> NAK.  You've changed the permission levels.

NAK is usually given when the whole idea is broken. Here is not the
case and you may have helped to amend the patch.

...

> And you have to keep the S_IFREG or'd along with the octal.

Perhaps time to read the code?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/fs/debugfs/inode.c#L387

...

> checkpatch does this conversion using this command line:
>
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --show-types --terse drivers/pinctrl/*.[ch] --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace

NAK! See above.

> -       debugfs_create_file("pins", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO,
> +       debugfs_create_file("pins", S_IFREG | 0444,
>                             device_root, pctldev, &pinctrl_pins_fops);

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko