From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/20] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd_setattr Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:42:11 +0900 Message-ID: <4A1505D3.7090306@kernel.org> References: <1242865694-2100-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-2-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-3-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-4-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-5-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-6-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-7-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-8-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-9-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <1242865694-2100-10-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:51445 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751383AbZEUHmW (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2009 03:42:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1242865694-2100-10-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Eric W. Biederman wrote: > From: Eric W. Biederman > > Cleanly separate the work that is specific to setting the > attributes of a sysfs_dirent from what is needed to update > the attributes of a vfs inode. > > Additionally grab the sysfs_mutex to keep any nasties from > surprising us when updating the sysfs_dirent. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Tejun Heo -- tejun