Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: Convert symbolic permission to octal

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 25 2020 - 09:36:11 EST


On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 09:25:13AM -0400, Brooke Basile wrote:
> Fixing checkpatch WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brooke Basile <brookebasile@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h
> index ab5aa351d555..eb0fd3b0490f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ struct gasket_sysfs_attribute {
>
> #define GASKET_SYSFS_RO(_name, _show_function, _attr_type) \
> { \
> - .attr = __ATTR(_name, S_IRUGO, _show_function, NULL), \
> + .attr = __ATTR(_name, 0444, _show_function, NULL), \
> .data.attr_type = _attr_type \
> }

Someone else sent this a few days before you did:
 https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200622073612.12282-1-rodolfovillordo@xxxxxxxxx

sorry,

greg k-h