Re: [PATCH 10/20] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd_setattr
From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu May 21 2009 - 03:42:36 EST
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Cleanly separate the work that is specific to setting the
> attributes of a sysfs_dirent from what is needed to update
> the attributes of a vfs inode.
>
> Additionally grab the sysfs_mutex to keep any nasties from
> surprising us when updating the sysfs_dirent.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
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tejun
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