From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx154.postini.com [74.125.245.154]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1284C6B004D for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:22:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:25:34 +0100 From: Djalal Harouni Subject: [PATCH] mm: add missing mutex lock arround notify_change Message-ID: <20111216112534.GA13147@dztty> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Minchan Kim , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Wu Fengguang Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Calls to notify_change() must hold i_mutex. Signed-off-by: Djalal Harouni --- mm/filemap.c | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index c106d3b..0670ec1 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -1994,10 +1994,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(should_remove_suid); static int __remove_suid(struct dentry *dentry, int kill) { + int ret; struct iattr newattrs; newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_FORCE | kill; - return notify_change(dentry, &newattrs); + + mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); + ret = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs); + mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); + + return ret; } int file_remove_suid(struct file *file) -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org