Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759932AbZKGC1k (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:27:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755581AbZKGC1j (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:27:39 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:36054 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752367AbZKGC1j (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:27:39 -0500 Message-ID: <4AF4DB15.6080409@kernel.org> Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:27:33 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kay Sievers , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Benjamin LaHaise , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] sysfs: Update sysfs_setxattr so it updates secdata under the sysfs_mutex References: <1257249429-12384-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <1257249429-12384-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 18 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > From: Eric W. Biederman > > The sysfs_mutex is required to ensure updates are and will remain > atomic with respect to other inode iattr updates, that do not happen > through the filesystem. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Tejun Heo -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/