From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> In general everything that writes to vfs inodes holds the inode mutex, so hold the inode mutex over sysfs_refresh_inode. The sysfs data structures don't need this but it looks like the vfs might. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/sysfs/inode.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c index 8197e1a..75516cd 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c @@ -237,9 +237,11 @@ int sysfs_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *sta struct sysfs_dirent *sd = dentry->d_fsdata; struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex); sysfs_refresh_inode(sd, inode); mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); generic_fillattr(inode, stat); return 0; @@ -349,9 +351,11 @@ int sysfs_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask) { struct sysfs_dirent *sd = inode->i_private; + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex); sysfs_refresh_inode(sd, inode); mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); return generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL); } -- 1.6.5.2.143.g8cc62 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html