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| author | Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> | 2007-08-20 14:36:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-10-12 23:51:07 +0200 |
| commit | 253280267a7f1ced0c434fb24b7bef92d7d22628 (patch) | |
| tree | 8add8daefa3cf776daf7f042cb9341debafe54f1 | |
| parent | Driver core: Make platform_device.id an int (diff) | |
| download | linux-253280267a7f1ced0c434fb24b7bef92d7d22628.tar.xz linux-253280267a7f1ced0c434fb24b7bef92d7d22628.zip | |
sysfs: fix i_mutex locking in sysfs_get_dentry()
lookup_one_len_kern() should be called with the parent's i_mutex
locked. Fix it.
Spotted by Eric W. Biederman.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sysfs/dir.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c index a0da2b05a754..54ca4bc02dcf 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c @@ -130,8 +130,10 @@ struct dentry *sysfs_get_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent *sd) /* look it up */ parent_dentry = dentry; + mutex_lock(&parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); dentry = lookup_one_len_kern(cur->s_name, parent_dentry, strlen(cur->s_name)); + mutex_unlock(&parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); dput(parent_dentry); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) { |