If one ends up extending this line checkpatch will complain about the use of S_IRWXUGO suggesting it is not preferred and that 0777 should be used instead. Take the tip from checkpatch and do that change before we do our subsequent changes. This makes no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/kernfs/symlink.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/kernfs/symlink.c b/fs/kernfs/symlink.c index c8f8e41b8411..19a6c71c6ff5 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/symlink.c @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ struct kernfs_node *kernfs_create_link(struct kernfs_node *parent, gid = target->iattr->ia_gid; } - kn = kernfs_new_node(parent, name, S_IFLNK|S_IRWXUGO, uid, gid, - KERNFS_LINK); + kn = kernfs_new_node(parent, name, S_IFLNK|0777, uid, gid, KERNFS_LINK); if (!kn) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.30.2