linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/15] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd

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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:12:26 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...et.ca>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out
	sysfs_sd_setattr

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:07:11PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:27:04PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> >> 
> >> Cleanly separate the work that is specific to setting the
> >> attributes of a sysfs_dirent from what is needed to update
> >> the attributes of a vfs inode.
> >> 
> >> Additionally grab the sysfs_mutex to keep any nasties from
> >> surprising us when updating the sysfs_dirent.
> >> 
> >> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
> >
> > Due to the extended attr work for sysfs that went into Linus's tree
> > recently, this patch doesn't apply at all anymore.
> 
> It looks like the issue is the a trivial context conflict  with 
> sysfs-mark-a-locally-only-used-function-static.patch

Ah, sorry about that, I should have noticed that, I was looking for a
much harder problem :(

I'll go queue these up in a bit.

thanks,

greg k-h
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