ubifs: make ubifs_[get|set]xattr atomic
This commit make the ubifs_[get|set]xattr protected by ui_mutex. Originally, there is a possibility that ubifs_getxattr to get a wrong value. P1 P2 ---------- ---------- ubifs_getxattr ubifs_setxattr - kfree() - memcpy() - kmemdup() Then ubifs_getxattr() would get a non-sense data. To solve this problem, this commit make the xattr of ubifs_inode updated in atomic. Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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