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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2005-04-18 21:57:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg KH <greg@press.kroah.org> | 2005-04-18 21:57:32 -0700 |
| commit | 31e5abe9a6dab1ed3a5c30352bdb001353146318 (patch) | |
| tree | 941317d6f91fe2bd0cb605692230b65686ca13e0 /fs/sysfs | |
| parent | 6897089c5f7989603ccb9c696050470ba1dbd262 (diff) | |
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[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/sysfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sysfs/file.c | 35 |
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) /** + * sysfs_chmod_file - update the modified mode value on an object attribute. + * @kobj: object we're acting for. + * @attr: attribute descriptor. + * @mode: file permissions. + * + */ +int sysfs_chmod_file(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr, mode_t mode) +{ + struct dentry *dir = kobj->dentry; + struct dentry *victim; + struct sysfs_dirent *sd; + umode_t umode = (mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG; + int res = -ENOENT; + + down(&dir->d_inode->i_sem); + victim = sysfs_get_dentry(dir, attr->name); + if (!IS_ERR(victim)) { + if (victim->d_inode && + (victim->d_parent->d_inode == dir->d_inode)) { + sd = victim->d_fsdata; + attr->mode = mode; + sd->s_mode = umode; + victim->d_inode->i_mode = umode; + dput(victim); + res = 0; + } + } + up(&dir->d_inode->i_sem); + + return res; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_chmod_file); + + +/** * sysfs_remove_file - remove an object attribute. * @kobj: object we're acting for. * @attr: attribute descriptor. |