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

[Xiubo Li]

On 9/22/23 14:25, Max Kellermann wrote:
> 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.

I am not sure whether will this make sense. Because the 'debug' under 
'/sys/kernel/' is also only accessible by privileged process.

Ilya, Jeff

Any idea ?

Thanks

- Xiubo

> 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);
>   }
>