From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:14:19 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] sysfs: fix sysfs_setattr
X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~42972
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ca1eb3282b6050c295adb296761f8d26baf4ca5;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git

[PATCH] sysfs: fix sysfs_setattr

o sysfs_dirent's s_mode field should also be updated in sysfs_setattr(), else
  there could be inconsistency in the two fields. s_mode is used while
  ->readdir so as not to bring in the inode to cache.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index 8de13ba..d727dc9 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * iattr)
 
 		if (!in_group_p(inode->i_gid) && !capable(CAP_FSETID))
 			mode &= ~S_ISGID;
-		sd_iattr->ia_mode = mode;
+		sd_iattr->ia_mode = sd->s_mode = mode;
 	}
 
 	return error;