The patch titled Subject: nilfs2: use octal for unreadable permission macro has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is nilfs2-use-octal-for-unreadable-permission-macro.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/nilfs2-use-octal-for-unreadable-permission-macro.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/nilfs2-use-octal-for-unreadable-permission-macro.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: nilfs2: use octal for unreadable permission macro Replace S_IRWXUGO with 0777 because symbolic permissions are considered harmful: https://lwn.net/Articles/696229/ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509367935-3086-5-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/nilfs2/namei.c~nilfs2-use-octal-for-unreadable-permission-macro fs/nilfs2/namei.c --- a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c~nilfs2-use-octal-for-unreadable-permission-macro +++ a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static int nilfs_symlink(struct inode *d if (err) return err; - inode = nilfs_new_inode(dir, S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO); + inode = nilfs_new_inode(dir, S_IFLNK | 0777); err = PTR_ERR(inode); if (IS_ERR(inode)) goto out; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are nilfs2-align-block-comments-of-nilfs_sufile_truncate_range-at.patch nilfs2-use-octal-for-unreadable-permission-macro.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html