-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Miklos Szeredi upstream commit: 9c3580aa52195699065bc2d7242b1c7e3e6903fa Callers of notify_change() need to hold i_mutex. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Michael Halcrow Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c @@ -908,7 +908,9 @@ static int ecryptfs_setattr(struct dentr if (ia->ia_valid & (ATTR_KILL_SUID | ATTR_KILL_SGID)) ia->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_MODE; + mutex_lock(&lower_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); rc = notify_change(lower_dentry, ia); + mutex_unlock(&lower_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); out: fsstack_copy_attr_all(inode, lower_inode, NULL); return rc; -- -- 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/