Commit 4a67a1bc authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Take sysfs_mutex when fetching the root inode.

sysfs_get_inode ultimately calls sysfs_count_nlink when the a
directory inode is fectched.  sysfs_count_nlink needs to be
called under the sysfs_mutex to guard against the unlikely
but possible scenario that the root directory is changing
as we are counting the number entries in it, and just in
general to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 8231f2f9
......@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ static int sysfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
sysfs_sb = sb;
/* get root inode, initialize and unlock it */
mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
inode = sysfs_get_inode(&sysfs_root);
mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
if (!inode) {
pr_debug("sysfs: could not get root inode\n");
return -ENOMEM;
......
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