From: Wim Coekaerts Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 03:22:47 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] ppc64: Allow world readable /proc/ppc64/lparcfg X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=71839267f2554d76bb0862cdd0181a60bd0f4970;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git [PATCH] ppc64: Allow world readable /proc/ppc64/lparcfg I would like to be able to read the lparcfg data from any user so we can make "intelligent" decisions based on underlying attributes when running in lpars. Yes there's software that likes to do this :) and runs as non-root. It's very similar to say VM where you can get CP to provide feedback of the real hardware inside a VM guest. Signed-off-by: Wim Coekaerts Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- diff --git a/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c b/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c index edad361a8db0..cae19bbd5acd 100644 --- a/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c +++ b/arch/ppc64/kernel/lparcfg.c @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ struct file_operations lparcfg_fops = { int __init lparcfg_init(void) { struct proc_dir_entry *ent; - mode_t mode = S_IRUSR; + mode_t mode = S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH; /* Allow writing if we have FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR */ if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR)) {