JFFS2 has possible race when setting file attributes
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri May 5 07:54:44 EDT 2006
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:50 +0400, Dmitry Bazhenov wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> It seems like there is a potential race in the function jffs2_do_setattr() in
> the case when attributes of a symlink are updated. The symlink metadata is
> read without having f->sem locked.
> The following patch should fix the race.
Thanks. Please could you resend, including a 'Signed-off-by:' line?
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dwmw2
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