driver-core: Introduce DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_{RO,RW}
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 22:08:07 +0000 (15:08 -0700)
committerVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 01:34:48 +0000 (19:34 -0600)
commit60d360acddc54344409a710af07c561e025f13f5
treea4ba85bde164669418fb2efffe504bb42ae8bb47
parent916566ae78462636fe4de59b3f59a4a0c8f70205
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 add an explicit helper with the _ADMIN_ identifier
for DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_{RO,RW}.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
include/linux/device.h
include/linux/sysfs.h