From: Josh Triplett rcutorture's module parameters currently use permissions of 0, so they don't show up in /sys/module/rcutorture/parameters. Change the permissions on all module parameters to world-readable (0444). rcutorture does all of its initialization and thread startup when loaded and relies on the parameters not changing during execution, so they should not permit writing. However, reading seems fine. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/rcutorture.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/rcutorture.c~publish-rcutorture-module-parameters-via-sysfs-read-only kernel/rcutorture.c --- a/kernel/rcutorture.c~publish-rcutorture-module-parameters-via-sysfs-read-only +++ a/kernel/rcutorture.c @@ -60,19 +60,19 @@ static int test_no_idle_hz; /* Test RCU' static int shuffle_interval = 5; /* Interval between shuffles (in sec)*/ static char *torture_type = "rcu"; /* What RCU implementation to torture. */ -module_param(nreaders, int, 0); +module_param(nreaders, int, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(nreaders, "Number of RCU reader threads"); -module_param(nfakewriters, int, 0); +module_param(nfakewriters, int, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(nfakewriters, "Number of RCU fake writer threads"); -module_param(stat_interval, int, 0); +module_param(stat_interval, int, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(stat_interval, "Number of seconds between stats printk()s"); -module_param(verbose, bool, 0); +module_param(verbose, bool, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(verbose, "Enable verbose debugging printk()s"); -module_param(test_no_idle_hz, bool, 0); +module_param(test_no_idle_hz, bool, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(test_no_idle_hz, "Test support for tickless idle CPUs"); -module_param(shuffle_interval, int, 0); +module_param(shuffle_interval, int, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(shuffle_interval, "Number of seconds between shuffles"); -module_param(torture_type, charp, 0); +module_param(torture_type, charp, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(torture_type, "Type of RCU to torture (rcu, rcu_bh, srcu)"); #define TORTURE_FLAG "-torture:" _