Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753568Ab2KIODh (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:03:37 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:3355 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753439Ab2KIODe (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:03:34 -0500 From: Tomas Hozza To: olaf@aepfle.de, kys@microsoft.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, apw@canonical.com, jasowang@redhat.com, ben@decadent.org.uk Cc: Tomas Hozza Subject: [PATCH 3/3] tools/hv: Fix permissions of created directory and files Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 15:01:21 +0100 Message-Id: <1352469681-4432-3-git-send-email-thozza@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1352469681-4432-1-git-send-email-thozza@redhat.com> References: <1352469681-4432-1-git-send-email-thozza@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1552 Lines: 44 From: Ben Hutchings It's silly to create directories without execute permission, or to give permissions to 'other' but not the group-owner. Write the permissions in octal and 'ls -l' format since these are much easier to read than the named macros. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza --- tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c index 573b9aa..9609858 100644 --- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c +++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static int kvp_file_init(void) int alloc_unit = sizeof(struct kvp_record) * ENTRIES_PER_BLOCK; if (access("/var/lib/hyperv", F_OK)) { - if (mkdir("/var/lib/hyperv", S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IROTH)) { + if (mkdir("/var/lib/hyperv", 0755 /* rwxr-xr-x */)) { syslog(LOG_ERR, " Failed to create /var/lib/hyperv"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ static int kvp_file_init(void) records_read = 0; num_blocks = 1; sprintf(fname, "/var/lib/hyperv/.kvp_pool_%d", i); - fd = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IROTH); + fd = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0644 /* rw-r--r-- */); if (fd == -1) return 1; -- 1.7.11.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/