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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-03-26 14:55:59 +0000
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-03-26 14:55:59 +0000
commit329f9052dbadf6f4afe2231668bd00c579a4aa10 (patch)
treee080a5c70df40f3ae8cf28a95a3267757668ab97 /drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
parent395b228858778d3c44f7c413693a6acaa8bb62dc (diff)
parent220bf991b0366cc50a94feede3d7341fa5710ee4 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/mtd/nand/sh_flctl.c Maxim's patch to initialise sysfs attributes depends on the patch which actually adds sysfs_attr_init().
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/devtmpfs.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/devtmpfs.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index 42ae452b36b0..dac478c6e460 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -301,6 +301,19 @@ int devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev)
if (dentry->d_inode) {
err = vfs_getattr(nd.path.mnt, dentry, &stat);
if (!err && dev_mynode(dev, dentry->d_inode, &stat)) {
+ struct iattr newattrs;
+ /*
+ * before unlinking this node, reset permissions
+ * of possible references like hardlinks
+ */
+ newattrs.ia_uid = 0;
+ newattrs.ia_gid = 0;
+ newattrs.ia_mode = stat.mode & ~0777;
+ newattrs.ia_valid =
+ ATTR_UID|ATTR_GID|ATTR_MODE;
+ mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
+ notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
+ mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
err = vfs_unlink(nd.path.dentry->d_inode,
dentry);
if (!err || err == -ENOENT)