Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: add warning about permission of config file

From: Hiromu Yakura
Date: Tue May 24 2011 - 09:06:51 EST


Hello,
thanks for replying.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 13:58, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do you have a precise way to reproduce this, in particular which
> target is involved ? I tried to `chmod 555' the kernel root directory,
> re-ran `conf' (through the `defconfig' target) and `mconf' (manually
> for this one, as check-lxdialog.sh fails when invoked though make).
> The former failed with:
>
> *** Error during writing of the configuration.
>
> gmake[1]: *** [defconfig] Error 1
> gmake: *** [defconfig] Error 2
In my environment, this patch is working properly.
The output is as follows:

hiromu@hiromu-MacBook:/usr/src/linux-2.6$ ls -ld .
dr-xr-sr-x 25 hiromu hiromu 4096 May 24 21:41 .
hiromu@hiromu-MacBook:/usr/src/linux-2.6$ make defconfig
*** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
*** Permission denied to write the configuration.

make[1]: *** [defconfig] Error 1
make: *** [defconfig] Error 2
hiromu@hiromu-MacBook:/usr/src/linux-2.6$

> So check _are_ being done whether or not the configuration can be
> written, but there might be a corner-case not checked, in that case,
> this specific path should be fixed.
I think it is OK if you have the write permission to the directory
which be saved the configuration.

> > Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hiromu Yakura <hiromu1996@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 6 ++++++
> > scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> > scripts/kconfig/gconf.c | 4 ++++
> > scripts/kconfig/lkc.h | 1 +
> > scripts/kconfig/mconf.c | 4 ++++
> > scripts/kconfig/nconf.c | 4 ++++
> > scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc | 4 ++++
> > 7 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
> > index 006ad81..d93e351 100644
> > --- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
> > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
> > @@ -466,6 +466,12 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
> > bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
> > textdomain(PACKAGE);
> >
> > + if (conf_check_permission()) {
> > + fprintf(stderr,
> > + "*** Permission denied to write the configuration.\n\n");
> > + exit(1);
> > + }
> > +
> > while ((opt = getopt_long(ac, av, "", long_opts, NULL)) != -1) {
> > input_mode = (enum input_mode)opt;
> > switch (opt) {
> > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> > index 61c35bf..3de1fbe 100644
> > --- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> > #include <ctype.h>
> > #include <errno.h>
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> > +#include <libgen.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <string.h>
> > @@ -1051,3 +1052,19 @@ void conf_set_all_new_symbols(enum conf_def_mode mode)
> > set_all_choice_values(csym);
> > }
> > }
> > +
> > +int conf_check_permission(void)
> > +{
> > + int ret, retval = 0;
> > + const char *name;
> > + char *dir;
> > +
> > + name = conf_get_configname();
> > + dir = dirname((char *)name);
> > +
> > + ret = access(dir, W_OK);
> > + if (ret < 0)
> > + retval = -errno;
> > +
> > + return retval;
> > +}
> > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
> > index 4558961..3567a23 100644
> > --- a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
> > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c
> > @@ -1510,6 +1510,10 @@ int main(int ac, char *av[])
> > bind_textdomain_codeset(PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
> > textdomain(PACKAGE);
> >
> > + if (conf_check_permission())
> > + fprintf(stderr,
> > + "Warning: Permission denied to write the configuration.\n");
> > +
> > /* GTK stuffs */
> > gtk_set_locale();
> > gtk_init(&ac, &av);
> > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lkc.h b/scripts/kconfig/lkc.h
> > index febf0c9..4d20841 100644
> > --- a/scripts/kconfig/lkc.h
> > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/lkc.h
> > @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ char *conf_get_default_confname(void);
> > void sym_set_change_count(int count);
> > void sym_add_change_count(int count);
> > void conf_set_all_new_symbols(enum conf_def_mode mode);
> > +int conf_check_permission(void);
> >
> > /* confdata.c and expr.c */
> > static inline void xfwrite(const void *str, size_t len, size_t count, FILE *out)
> > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
> > index d433c7a..c820e05 100644
> > --- a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
> > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
> > @@ -803,6 +803,10 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
> > bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
> > textdomain(PACKAGE);
> >
> > + if (conf_check_permission())
> > + fprintf(stderr,
> > + "Warning: Permission denied to write the configuration.\n");
> > +
> > conf_parse(av[1]);
> > conf_read(NULL);
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
> > index db56377..1cea031 100644
> > --- a/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
> > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
> > @@ -1491,6 +1491,10 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
> > bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
> > textdomain(PACKAGE);
> >
> > + if (conf_check_permission())
> > + fprintf(stderr,
> > + "Warning: Permission denied to write the configuration.\n");
> > +
> > conf_parse(av[1]);
> > conf_read(NULL);
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc b/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc
> > index 06dd2e3..7dca7ac 100644
> > --- a/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc
> > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc
> > @@ -1746,6 +1746,10 @@ int main(int ac, char** av)
> > bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
> > textdomain(PACKAGE);
> >
> > + if (conf_check_permission())
> > + fprintf(stderr,
> > + "Warning: Permission denied to write the configuration.\n");
> > +
> > #ifndef LKC_DIRECT_LINK
> > kconfig_load();
> > #endif
> > --
> > 1.7.4.1
> >
> >
> >
> >

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