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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/15] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd_setattr
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:27:04PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
>
> Due to the extended attr work for sysfs that went into Linus's tree
> recently, this patch doesn't apply at all anymore.

I will take a look. I'm scratching my about how that caused a problem
because that patch came out of my tree originally, before the rest of
these patches. So if anything I should have problems in the other direction.

Eric



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