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[PATCH v8 1/6] tracing: Fix to set write permission to per-cpu buffer_size_kb

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From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-02-10 08:43:38
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Subsystem: the rest, tracing · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu

Revision v8 of 10 in this series.

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From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Since the per-cpu buffer_size_kb file is writable for changing
per-cpu ring buffer size, the file should have the write access
permission.

Fixes: 21ccc9cd7211 ("tracing: Disable "other" permission bits in the tracefs files")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
 Changes in v8: Newly added.
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 845b8a165daf..fd470675809b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -8613,7 +8613,7 @@ tracing_init_tracefs_percpu(struct trace_array *tr, long cpu)
 	trace_create_cpu_file("stats", TRACE_MODE_READ, d_cpu,
 				tr, cpu, &tracing_stats_fops);
 
-	trace_create_cpu_file("buffer_size_kb", TRACE_MODE_READ, d_cpu,
+	trace_create_cpu_file("buffer_size_kb", TRACE_MODE_WRITE, d_cpu,
 				tr, cpu, &tracing_entries_fops);
 
 	if (tr->range_addr_start)
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