From miklos@szeredi.hu Thu Jun 19 12:02:11 2008 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:46:47 +0200 Subject: sysfs: don't call notify_change To: gregkh@suse.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: From: Miklos Szeredi sysfs_chmod_file() calls notify_change() to change the permission bits on a sysfs file. Replace with explicit call to sysfs_setattr() and fsnotify_change(). This is equivalent, except that security_inode_setattr() is not called. This function is called by drivers, so the security checks do not make any sense. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/file.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -585,9 +586,11 @@ int sysfs_chmod_file(struct kobject *kob newattrs.ia_mode = (mode & S_IALLUGO) | (inode->i_mode & ~S_IALLUGO); newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_MODE | ATTR_CTIME; - rc = notify_change(victim, &newattrs); + newattrs.ia_ctime = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb); + rc = sysfs_setattr(victim, &newattrs); if (rc == 0) { + fsnotify_change(victim, newattrs.ia_valid); mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex); victim_sd->s_mode = newattrs.ia_mode; mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);