On Friday, 14 February 2025 06:28:00 CST Mike Lothian wrote:
> This allows ntsync to be usuable by non-root processes out of the box
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Lothian <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/ntsync.c b/drivers/misc/ntsync.c
> index 055395cde42b..586b86243e1d 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/ntsync.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/ntsync.c
> @@ -1208,6 +1208,7 @@ static struct miscdevice ntsync_misc = {
> .minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
> .name = NTSYNC_NAME,
> .fops = &ntsync_fops,
> + .mode = 0666, // Setting file permissions to 0666
> };
>
> module_misc_device(ntsync_misc);
>
Reviewed-by: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The comment seems rather redundant, but otherwise this is correct and prudent.
