[PATCH] sysfs: Take sysfs_mutex when fetching the root inode.

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Jan 21 2009 - 14:55:33 EST



sysfs_get_inode ultimately calls sysfs_count_nlink when the a
directory inode is fectched. sysfs_count_nlink needs to be
called under the sysfs_mutex to guard against the unlikely
but possible scenario that the root directory is changing
as we are counting the number entries in it, and just in
general to be consistent.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/sysfs/mount.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/mount.c b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
index ab343e3..f3e34fd 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/mount.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ static int sysfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
sysfs_sb = sb;

/* get root inode, initialize and unlock it */
+ mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
inode = sysfs_get_inode(&sysfs_root);
+ mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
if (!inode) {
pr_debug("sysfs: could not get root inode\n");
return -ENOMEM;
--
1.5.6.3

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