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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] sysfs: Update sysfs_setxattr so it updates secdata
 under the sysfs_mutex
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:27:33 +0900
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
> 
> The sysfs_mutex is required to ensure updates are and will remain
> atomic with respect to other inode iattr updates, that do not happen
> through the filesystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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tejun