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zram: fix up permission for the hot_add sysfs file

Commit 75a2d4226b53 ("driver core: class: mark the struct class for
sysfs callbacks as constant") changed the attribute to use
CLASS_ATTR_RO() which changed the permission from 0400 to 0444. But
this atribute is "special" in that reading it modifies the system state,
so it MUST be set to 0400 so that only root processes can muck around
with it.

Fix this all up, AND document this so that I don't change it again in
3-4 years when I stumble across it and wonder why it's an open-coded
_ATTR() macro.

Reported-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Fixes: 75a2d4226b53 ("driver core: class: mark the struct class for sysfs callbacks as constant")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2023041810-angelic-conical-52d8@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

+3 -1
+3 -1
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
··· 2438 2438 return ret; 2439 2439 return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", ret); 2440 2440 } 2441 - static CLASS_ATTR_RO(hot_add); 2441 + /* This attribute must be set to 0400, so CLASS_ATTR_RO() can not be used */ 2442 + static struct class_attribute class_attr_hot_add = 2443 + __ATTR(hot_add, 0400, hot_add_show, NULL); 2442 2444 2443 2445 static ssize_t hot_remove_store(const struct class *class, 2444 2446 const struct class_attribute *attr,