checkpatch: match more world writable permissions
Currently checkpatch will fuss if one uses world writable settings in
debugfs files and DEVICE_ATTR uses by testing S_IWUGO but not testing
S_IWOTH, S_IRWXUGO or S_IALLUGO.
Extend the check to catch all cases exporting world writable permissions
including octal values.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray $]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Original-patch-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 6b79beb..5748c35 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -443,6 +443,14 @@
$mode_perms_search .= $entry->[0];
}
+our $mode_perms_world_writable = qr{
+ S_IWUGO |
+ S_IWOTH |
+ S_IRWXUGO |
+ S_IALLUGO |
+ 0[0-7][0-7][2367]
+}x;
+
our $allowed_asm_includes = qr{(?x:
irq|
memory|
@@ -5356,8 +5364,8 @@
}
}
- if ($line =~ /debugfs_create_file.*S_IWUGO/ ||
- $line =~ /DEVICE_ATTR.*S_IWUGO/ ) {
+ if ($line =~ /debugfs_create_\w+.*\b$mode_perms_world_writable\b/ ||
+ $line =~ /DEVICE_ATTR.*\b$mode_perms_world_writable\b/) {
WARN("EXPORTED_WORLD_WRITABLE",
"Exporting world writable files is usually an error. Consider more restrictive permissions.\n" . $herecurr);
}