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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2010-05-31 17:58:02 +1000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-06-04 13:27:53 -0700
commit75de46b98dda624397ccb17c106e51f478a79c15 (patch)
tree8c4cf43eb8f840e84a48d387928673bcccd03d66
parentkobject: free memory if netlink_kernel_create() fails (diff)
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fix setattr error handling in sysfs, configfs
sysfs and configfs setattr functions have error cases after the generic inode's attributes have been changed. Fix consistency by changing the generic inode attributes only when it is guaranteed to succeed. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--fs/configfs/inode.c9
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/inode.c6
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/configfs/inode.c b/fs/configfs/inode.c
index 41645142b88b..cf78d44a8d6a 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/inode.c
@@ -72,10 +72,6 @@ int configfs_setattr(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * iattr)
if (!sd)
return -EINVAL;
- error = simple_setattr(dentry, iattr);
- if (error)
- return error;
-
sd_iattr = sd->s_iattr;
if (!sd_iattr) {
/* setting attributes for the first time, allocate now */
@@ -89,9 +85,12 @@ int configfs_setattr(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * iattr)
sd_iattr->ia_atime = sd_iattr->ia_mtime = sd_iattr->ia_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
sd->s_iattr = sd_iattr;
}
-
/* attributes were changed atleast once in past */
+ error = simple_setattr(dentry, iattr);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+
if (ia_valid & ATTR_UID)
sd_iattr->ia_uid = iattr->ia_uid;
if (ia_valid & ATTR_GID)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index bde1a4c3679a..0835a3b70e03 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -117,11 +117,13 @@ int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr)
if (error)
goto out;
+ error = sysfs_sd_setattr(sd, iattr);
+ if (error)
+ goto out;
+
/* this ignores size changes */
generic_setattr(inode, iattr);
- error = sysfs_sd_setattr(sd, iattr);
-
out:
mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
return error;