sysfs: Use only return value from is_visible for the file mode
Up to now, is_visible can only be used to either remove visibility
of a file entirely or to add permissions, but not to reduce permissions.
This makes it impossible, for example, to use DEVICE_ATTR_RW to define
file attributes and reduce permissions to read-only.
This behavior is undesirable and unnecessarily complicates code which
needs to reduce permissions; instead of just returning the desired
permissions, it has to ensure that the permissions in the attribute
variable declaration only reflect the minimal permissions ever needed.
Change semantics of is_visible to only use the permissions returned
from it instead of oring the returned value with the hard-coded
permissions.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/group.c b/fs/sysfs/group.c
index 2554d88..3fdccd9 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/group.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/group.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
if (grp->attrs) {
for (i = 0, attr = grp->attrs; *attr && !error; i++, attr++) {
- umode_t mode = 0;
+ umode_t mode = (*attr)->mode;
/*
* In update mode, we're changing the permissions or
@@ -56,8 +56,7 @@
continue;
}
error = sysfs_add_file_mode_ns(parent, *attr, false,
- (*attr)->mode | mode,
- NULL);
+ mode, NULL);
if (unlikely(error))
break;
}