[PATCH] sysfs: fix sysfs_setattr

o sysfs_dirent's s_mode field should also be updated in sysfs_setattr(), else
  there could be inconsistency in the two fields. s_mode is used while
  ->readdir so as not to bring in the inode to cache.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index 8de13bafaa76..d727dc960634 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * iattr)
 
                 if (!in_group_p(inode->i_gid) && !capable(CAP_FSETID))
                         mode &= ~S_ISGID;
-                sd_iattr->ia_mode = mode;
+                sd_iattr->ia_mode = sd->s_mode = mode;
         }
 
         return error;