The patch titled
ecryptfs: add missing lock around notify_change
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
ecryptfs-add-missing-lock-around-notify_change.patch
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Subject: ecryptfs: add missing lock around notify_change
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Callers of notify_change() need to hold i_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/ecryptfs/inode.c~ecryptfs-add-missing-lock-around-notify_change fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c~ecryptfs-add-missing-lock-around-notify_change
+++ a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -908,7 +908,9 @@ static int ecryptfs_setattr(struct dentr
if (ia->ia_valid & (ATTR_KILL_SUID | ATTR_KILL_SGID))
ia->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_MODE;
+ mutex_lock(&lower_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
rc = notify_change(lower_dentry, ia);
+ mutex_unlock(&lower_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
out:
fsstack_copy_attr_all(inode, lower_inode);
return rc;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are
git-vfs.patch
mm-rotate_reclaimable_page-cleanup.patch
vfs-remove-lives_below_in_same_fs.patch
ecryptfs-add-missing-lock-around-notify_change.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-2.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-3.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-fix-4.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi-attributes-in-sysfs-ia64-fix.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-nfs.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-nfs-fix.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-fuse.patch
mm-bdi-expose-the-bdi-object-in-sysfs-for-fuse-fix.patch
mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-minimum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit.patch
mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-maximum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit.patch
mm-bdi-allow-setting-a-maximum-for-the-bdi-dirty-limit-fix.patch
mm-bdi-move-statistics-to-debugfs.patch
mm-bdi-add-separate-writeback-accounting-capability.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi_writeout_inc.patch
mm-bdi-export-bdi_writeout_inc-fix.patch
mm-add-nr_writeback_temp-counter.patch
mm-document-missing-fields-for-proc-meminfo.patch
fuse-support-writable-mmap.patch
fuse-support-writable-mmap-fix.patch
fuse-clean-up-setting-i_size-in-write.patch
fuse-implement-perform_write.patch
fuse-update-file-size-on-short-read.patch
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