KVM: Replaces symbolic permissions with numeric
authorRoman Storozhenko <romeusmeister@gmail.com>
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:51:18 +0000 (12:51 +0300)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:41:02 +0000 (15:41 +0200)
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>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c

index f0fe9d0..3863cf7 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
 
 /*