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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2005-04-19 00:57:32 -0400
committerGreg KH <greg@press.kroah.org>2005-04-19 00:57:32 -0400
commit31e5abe9a6dab1ed3a5c30352bdb001353146318 (patch)
tree941317d6f91fe2bd0cb605692230b65686ca13e0 /fs
parent6897089c5f7989603ccb9c696050470ba1dbd262 (diff)
[PATCH] sysfs: add sysfs_chmod_file()
sysfs: allow changing the permissions for already created attributes Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/file.c35
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 352f966a1174..da25aeb0e062 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -428,6 +428,41 @@ int sysfs_update_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr)
428 428
429 429
430/** 430/**
431 * sysfs_chmod_file - update the modified mode value on an object attribute.
432 * @kobj: object we're acting for.
433 * @attr: attribute descriptor.
434 * @mode: file permissions.
435 *
436 */
437int sysfs_chmod_file(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr, mode_t mode)
438{
439 struct dentry *dir = kobj->dentry;
440 struct dentry *victim;
441 struct sysfs_dirent *sd;
442 umode_t umode = (mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG;
443 int res = -ENOENT;
444
445 down(&dir->d_inode->i_sem);
446 victim = sysfs_get_dentry(dir, attr->name);
447 if (!IS_ERR(victim)) {
448 if (victim->d_inode &&
449 (victim->d_parent->d_inode == dir->d_inode)) {
450 sd = victim->d_fsdata;
451 attr->mode = mode;
452 sd->s_mode = umode;
453 victim->d_inode->i_mode = umode;
454 dput(victim);
455 res = 0;
456 }
457 }
458 up(&dir->d_inode->i_sem);
459
460 return res;
461}
462EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_chmod_file);
463
464
465/**
431 * sysfs_remove_file - remove an object attribute. 466 * sysfs_remove_file - remove an object attribute.
432 * @kobj: object we're acting for. 467 * @kobj: object we're acting for.
433 * @attr: attribute descriptor. 468 * @attr: attribute descriptor.