[PATCH 1/2] fs/ceph/debugfs: make all files world-readable

From: Max Kellermann
Date: Fri Sep 22 2023 - 02:26:23 EST


I'd like to be able to run metrics collector processes without special
privileges

In the kernel, there is a mix of debugfs files being world-readable
and not world-readable is; with a naive "git grep", I found 723
world-readable debugfs_create_file() calls and 582 calls which were
only accessible to privileged processe.

>From the code, I cannot derive a consistent policy for that, but the
ceph statistics seem harmless (and useful) enough.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ceph/debugfs.c | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ceph/debugfs.c b/fs/ceph/debugfs.c
index 3904333fa6c3..2abee7e18144 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/debugfs.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/debugfs.c
@@ -429,31 +429,31 @@ void ceph_fs_debugfs_init(struct ceph_fs_client *fsc)
name);

fsc->debugfs_mdsmap = debugfs_create_file("mdsmap",
- 0400,
+ 0444,
fsc->client->debugfs_dir,
fsc,
&mdsmap_fops);

fsc->debugfs_mds_sessions = debugfs_create_file("mds_sessions",
- 0400,
+ 0444,
fsc->client->debugfs_dir,
fsc,
&mds_sessions_fops);

fsc->debugfs_mdsc = debugfs_create_file("mdsc",
- 0400,
+ 0444,
fsc->client->debugfs_dir,
fsc,
&mdsc_fops);

fsc->debugfs_caps = debugfs_create_file("caps",
- 0400,
+ 0444,
fsc->client->debugfs_dir,
fsc,
&caps_fops);

fsc->debugfs_status = debugfs_create_file("status",
- 0400,
+ 0444,
fsc->client->debugfs_dir,
fsc,
&status_fops);
@@ -461,13 +461,13 @@ void ceph_fs_debugfs_init(struct ceph_fs_client *fsc)
fsc->debugfs_metrics_dir = debugfs_create_dir("metrics",
fsc->client->debugfs_dir);

- debugfs_create_file("file", 0400, fsc->debugfs_metrics_dir, fsc,
+ debugfs_create_file("file", 0444, fsc->debugfs_metrics_dir, fsc,
&metrics_file_fops);
- debugfs_create_file("latency", 0400, fsc->debugfs_metrics_dir, fsc,
+ debugfs_create_file("latency", 0444, fsc->debugfs_metrics_dir, fsc,
&metrics_latency_fops);
- debugfs_create_file("size", 0400, fsc->debugfs_metrics_dir, fsc,
+ debugfs_create_file("size", 0444, fsc->debugfs_metrics_dir, fsc,
&metrics_size_fops);
- debugfs_create_file("caps", 0400, fsc->debugfs_metrics_dir, fsc,
+ debugfs_create_file("caps", 0444, fsc->debugfs_metrics_dir, fsc,
&metrics_caps_fops);
}

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