base: core: WARN() about bogus permissions on device attributes
Whenever a struct device_attribute is registered
with mismatched permissions - read permission without
a show routine or write permission without store
routine - we will issue a big warning so we catch
those early enough.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 56536f4b0..a7391a3 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -563,8 +563,15 @@
const struct device_attribute *attr)
{
int error = 0;
- if (dev)
+
+ if (dev) {
+ WARN(((attr->attr.mode & S_IWUGO) && !attr->store),
+ "Write permission without 'store'\n");
+ WARN(((attr->attr.mode & S_IRUGO) && !attr->show),
+ "Read permission without 'show'\n");
error = sysfs_create_file(&dev->kobj, &attr->attr);
+ }
+
return error;
}