* During bootup, before any driver core device is registered,
* devtmpfs, a tmpfs-based filesystem is created. Every driver-core
* device which requests a device node, will add a node in this
- * filesystem. The node is named after the the name of the device,
- * or the susbsytem can provide a custom name. All devices are
- * owned by root and have a mode of 0600.
+ * filesystem.
+ * By default, all devices are named after the the name of the
+ * device, owned by root and have a default mode of 0600. Subsystems
+ * can overwrite the default setting if needed.
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
#include <linux/cred.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/init_task.h>
static struct vfsmount *dev_mnt;
const char *tmp = NULL;
const char *nodename;
const struct cred *curr_cred;
- mode_t mode;
+ mode_t mode = 0;
struct nameidata nd;
struct dentry *dentry;
int err;
if (!dev_mnt)
return 0;
- nodename = device_get_nodename(dev, &tmp);
+ nodename = device_get_devnode(dev, &mode, &tmp);
if (!nodename)
return -ENOMEM;
+ if (mode == 0)
+ mode = 0600;
if (is_blockdev(dev))
- mode = S_IFBLK|0600;
+ mode |= S_IFBLK;
else
- mode = S_IFCHR|0600;
+ mode |= S_IFCHR;
curr_cred = override_creds(&init_cred);
err = vfs_path_lookup(dev_mnt->mnt_root, dev_mnt,
dentry = lookup_create(&nd, 0);
if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+ int umask;
+
+ umask = sys_umask(0000);
err = vfs_mknod(nd.path.dentry->d_inode,
dentry, mode, dev->devt);
+ sys_umask(umask);
/* mark as kernel created inode */
if (!err)
dentry->d_inode->i_private = &dev_mnt;
if (!dev_mnt)
return 0;
- nodename = device_get_nodename(dev, &tmp);
+ nodename = device_get_devnode(dev, NULL, &tmp);
if (!nodename)
return -ENOMEM;