Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wirel...

[linux-2.6-block.git] / drivers / base / devtmpfs.c

diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index 42ae452b36b0c058376286882220ef25aff49c9e..dac478c6e46089c5bf8070dfa4127659b44fb6ec 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -301,6 +301,19 @@ int devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev)
                if (dentry->d_inode) {
                        err = vfs_getattr(nd.path.mnt, dentry, &stat);
                        if (!err && dev_mynode(dev, dentry->d_inode, &stat)) {
+                               struct iattr newattrs;
+                               /*
+                                * before unlinking this node, reset permissions
+                                * of possible references like hardlinks
+                                */
+                               newattrs.ia_uid = 0;
+                               newattrs.ia_gid = 0;
+                               newattrs.ia_mode = stat.mode & ~0777;
+                               newattrs.ia_valid =
+                                       ATTR_UID|ATTR_GID|ATTR_MODE;
+                               mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
+                               notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
+                               mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
                                err = vfs_unlink(nd.path.dentry->d_inode,
                                                 dentry);
                                if (!err || err == -ENOENT)