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SubjectRe: sysfs_chmod_file() broken in 2.6.33-rc4-git6
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Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> writes:

> Hi Eric, Greg,
>
> While working on a driver using 2.6.33-rc4-git6 as my environment, I
> have found that sysfs_chmod_file() called from a kernel driver no
> longer works. It doesn't return any error nor print any message in the
> logs, it simply has no effect. The same code worked fine using kernel
> 2.6.32. I have bisected it down to the following commit:
>
> commit e61ab4ae48fbf477f5b9fcbec9e1b8dc789920d0
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Date: Fri Nov 20 16:08:53 2009 -0800
>
> sysfs: Implement sysfs_getattr & sysfs_permission
>
> With the implementation of sysfs_getattr and sysfs_permission
> sysfs becomes able to lazily propogate inode attribute changes
> from the sysfs_dirents to the vfs inodes. This paves the way
> for deleting significant chunks of now unnecessary code.
>
> While doing this we did not reference sysfs_setattr from
> sysfs_symlink_inode_operations so I added along with
> sysfs_getattr and sysfs_permission.
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> Eric, can you please look at your code again and see if you can find
> any obvious issue?

Does this fix your issue?

Eric


diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index 220b758..6a06a1d 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -81,24 +81,23 @@ int sysfs_sd_setattr(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, struct iattr * iattr)
if (!sd_attrs)
return -ENOMEM;
sd->s_iattr = sd_attrs;
- } else {
- /* attributes were changed at least once in past */
- iattrs = &sd_attrs->ia_iattr;
-
- if (ia_valid & ATTR_UID)
- iattrs->ia_uid = iattr->ia_uid;
- if (ia_valid & ATTR_GID)
- iattrs->ia_gid = iattr->ia_gid;
- if (ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME)
- iattrs->ia_atime = iattr->ia_atime;
- if (ia_valid & ATTR_MTIME)
- iattrs->ia_mtime = iattr->ia_mtime;
- if (ia_valid & ATTR_CTIME)
- iattrs->ia_ctime = iattr->ia_ctime;
- if (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) {
- umode_t mode = iattr->ia_mode;
- iattrs->ia_mode = sd->s_mode = mode;
- }
+ }
+ /* attributes were changed at least once in past */
+ iattrs = &sd_attrs->ia_iattr;
+
+ if (ia_valid & ATTR_UID)
+ iattrs->ia_uid = iattr->ia_uid;
+ if (ia_valid & ATTR_GID)
+ iattrs->ia_gid = iattr->ia_gid;
+ if (ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME)
+ iattrs->ia_atime = iattr->ia_atime;
+ if (ia_valid & ATTR_MTIME)
+ iattrs->ia_mtime = iattr->ia_mtime;
+ if (ia_valid & ATTR_CTIME)
+ iattrs->ia_ctime = iattr->ia_ctime;
+ if (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) {
+ umode_t mode = iattr->ia_mode;
+ iattrs->ia_mode = sd->s_mode = mode;
}
return 0;
}

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