Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysfs: fix sysfs_setattr

[Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>]

o sysfs_dirent's s_mode field should also be updated in sysfs_setattr(), else
  there could be inconsistency in the two fields. s_mode is used while
  ->readdir so as not to bring in the inode to cache.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
---

 linux-2.6.13-rc2-maneesh/fs/sysfs/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/sysfs/inode.c~fix-sysfs_setattr-update-s_mode fs/sysfs/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc2/fs/sysfs/inode.c~fix-sysfs_setattr-update-s_mode	2005-07-12 11:24:56.341493928 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc2-maneesh/fs/sysfs/inode.c	2005-07-12 11:24:56.347493016 +0530
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry * dentry
 
 		if (!in_group_p(inode->i_gid) && !capable(CAP_FSETID))
 			mode &= ~S_ISGID;
-		sd_iattr->ia_mode = mode;
+		sd_iattr->ia_mode = sd->s_mode = mode;
 	}
 
 	return error;
_
-- 
Maneesh Soni
Linux Technology Center, 
IBM India Software Labs,
Bangalore, India
email: maneesh@in.ibm.com
Phone: 91-80-25044990
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