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From: "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
To: kraxel@redhat.com, vivek.kasireddy@intel.com, shuah@kernel.org,
	 skhan@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 bobbyeshleman@meta.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	 "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] selftests/udmabuf: Open /dev/udmabuf O_RDONLY
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:10:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260722211037.1925308-1-tjmercier@google.com> (raw)

Write permissions on the /dev/udmabuf device file are not required to
issue ioctls and allocate udmabufs. Applications should be opening this
file as O_RDONLY. The BPF dmabuf_iter selftest already does this. [1]

Users are pointing to these selftests as examples of how use udmabuf,
and encountering permission errors on systems where write permissions
are not available on /dev/udmabuf. Apply the principle of least
privilege to selftests which use udmabuf by removing the write access
mode from drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c and drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/dmabuf_iter.c?h=v7.1#n49

Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
index d78aec662586..ced0b95c876c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	ksft_print_header();
 	ksft_set_plan(7);
 
-	devfd = open("/dev/udmabuf", O_RDWR);
+	devfd = open("/dev/udmabuf", O_RDONLY);
 	if (devfd < 0) {
 		ksft_print_msg(
 			"%s: [skip,no-udmabuf: Unable to access DMA buffer device file]\n",

base-commit: 20f01a5565ce79923b75a2ac8e8ef2a1d7adf517
-- 
2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog


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