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Re: [PATCH] KVM: Replaces symbolic permissions with numeric

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On 27/06/2017 11:51, Roman Storozhenko wrote:
> Replaces "S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR" with 0644. The reason is that symbolic
> permissions considered harmful:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/696229/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Storozhenko <romeusmeister@gmail.com>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index f0fe9d0..3863cf7 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -73,17 +73,17 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  
>  /* Architectures should define their poll value according to the halt latency */
>  unsigned int halt_poll_ns = KVM_HALT_POLL_NS_DEFAULT;
> -module_param(halt_poll_ns, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +module_param(halt_poll_ns, uint, 0644);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(halt_poll_ns);
>  
>  /* Default doubles per-vcpu halt_poll_ns. */
>  unsigned int halt_poll_ns_grow = 2;
> -module_param(halt_poll_ns_grow, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +module_param(halt_poll_ns_grow, uint, 0644);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(halt_poll_ns_grow);
>  
>  /* Default resets per-vcpu halt_poll_ns . */
>  unsigned int halt_poll_ns_shrink;
> -module_param(halt_poll_ns_shrink, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +module_param(halt_poll_ns_shrink, uint, 0644);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(halt_poll_ns_shrink);
>  
>  /*
> 

Queued, thanks.

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[PATCH] KVM: Replaces symbolic permissions with numeric Roman Storozhenko <romeusmeister@gmail.com> - 2017-06-27 12:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] KVM: Replaces symbolic permissions with numeric Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-06-27 15:10 +0200

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