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Eric Paris
a12a7dd328 fanotify: merge notification events with different masks
Instead of just merging fanotify events if they are exactly the same, merge
notification events with different masks.  To do this we have to clone the
old event, update the mask in the new event with the new merged mask, and
put the new event in place of the old event.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:55 -04:00
Eric Paris
767cd46c33 fanotify:drop notification if they exist in the outgoing queue
fanotify listeners get an open file descriptor to the object in question so
the ordering of operations is not as important as in other notification
systems.  inotify will drop events if the last event in the event FIFO is
the same as the current event.  This patch will drop fanotify events if
they are the same as another event anywhere in the event FIFO.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
ff0b16a985 fanotify: fscking all notification system
fanotify is a novel file notification system which bases notification on
giving userspace both an event type (open, close, read, write) and an open
file descriptor to the object in question.  This should address a number of
races and problems with other notification systems like inotify and dnotify
and should allow the future implementation of blocking or access controlled
notification.  These are useful for on access scanners or hierachical storage
management schemes.

This patch just implements the basics of the fsnotify functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
3556608709 fsnotify: take inode->i_lock inside fsnotify_find_mark_entry()
All callers to fsnotify_find_mark_entry() except one take and
release inode->i_lock around the call.  Take the lock inside
fsnotify_find_mark_entry() instead.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
ef5e2b785f dnotify: rename mark_entry to mark
nomenclature change.  Used to call things 'entries' but now we just call
them 'marks.'  Do those changes for dnotify.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
000285deb9 inotify: rename mark_entry to just mark
rename anything in inotify that deals with mark_entry to just be mark.  It
makes a lot more sense.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
841bdc10f5 fsnotify: rename mark_entry to just mark
previously I used mark_entry when talking about marks on inodes.  The
_entry is pretty useless.  Just use "mark" instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
d07754412f fsnotify: rename fsnotify_find_mark_entry to fsnotify_find_mark
the _entry portion of fsnotify functions is useless.  Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
e61ce86737 fsnotify: rename fsnotify_mark_entry to just fsnotify_mark
The name is long and it serves no real purpose.  So rename
fsnotify_mark_entry to just fsnotify_mark.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:53 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
72acc85442 fsnotify: kill FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE
Some fsnotify operations send a struct file.  This is more information than
we technically need.  We instead send a struct path in all cases instead of
sometimes a path and sometimes a file.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
098cf2fc77 fsnotify: add flags to fsnotify_mark_entries
To differentiate between inode and vfsmount (or other future) types of
marks we add a flags field and set the inode bit on inode marks (the only
currently supported type of mark)

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:52 -04:00
Eric Paris
2823e04de4 fsnotify: put inode specific fields in an fsnotify_mark in a union
The addition of marks on vfs mounts will be simplified if the inode
specific parts of a mark and the vfsmnt specific parts of a mark are
actually in a union so naming can be easy.  This patch just implements the
inode struct and the union.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:52 -04:00
Eric Paris
3a9fb89f4c fsnotify: include vfsmount in should_send_event when appropriate
To ensure that a group will not duplicate events when it receives it based
on the vfsmount and the inode should_send_event test we should distinguish
those two cases.  We pass a vfsmount to this function so groups can make
their own determinations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:52 -04:00
Eric Paris
7131485a93 fsnotify: mount point listeners list and global mask
currently all of the notification systems implemented select which inodes
they care about and receive messages only about those inodes (or the
children of those inodes.)  This patch begins to flesh out fsnotify support
for the concept of listeners that want to hear notification for an inode
accessed below a given monut point.  This patch implements a second list
of fsnotify groups to hold these types of groups and a second global mask
to hold the events of interest for this type of group.

The reason we want a second group list and mask is because the inode based
notification should_send_event support which makes each group look for a mark
on the given inode.  With one nfsmount listener that means that every group would
have to take the inode->i_lock, look for their mark, not find one, and return
for every operation.   By seperating vfsmount from inode listeners only when
there is a inode listener will the inode groups have to look for their
mark and take the inode lock.  vfsmount listeners will have to grab the lock and
look for a mark but there should be fewer of them, and one vfsmount listener
won't cause the i_lock to be grabbed and released for every fsnotify group
on every io operation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:52 -04:00
Eric Paris
4ca763523e fsnotify: add groups to fsnotify_inode_groups when registering inode watch
Currently all fsnotify groups are added immediately to the
fsnotify_inode_groups list upon creation.  This means, even groups with no
watches (common for audit) will be on the global tracking list and will
get checked for every event.  This patch adds groups to the global list on
when the first inode mark is added to the group.

Signed-of-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:51 -04:00
Eric Paris
36fddebaa8 fsnotify: initialize the group->num_marks in a better place
Currently the comments say that group->num_marks is held because the group
is on the fsnotify_group list.  This isn't strictly the case, we really
just hold the num_marks for the life of the group (any time group->refcnt
is != 0)  This patch moves the initialization stuff and makes it clear when
it is really being held.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:51 -04:00
Eric Paris
19c2a0e1a2 fsnotify: rename fsnotify_groups to fsnotify_inode_groups
Simple renaming patch.  fsnotify is about to support mount point listeners
so I am renaming fsnotify_groups and fsnotify_mask to indicate these are lists
used only for groups which have watches on inodes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:51 -04:00
Eric Paris
0d2e2a1d00 fsnotify: drop mask argument from fsnotify_alloc_group
Nothing uses the mask argument to fsnotify_alloc_group.  This patch drops
that argument.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:51 -04:00
Eric Paris
ffab83402f fsnotify: fsnotify_obtain_group should be fsnotify_alloc_group
fsnotify_obtain_group was intended to be able to find an already existing
group.  Nothing uses that functionality.  This just renames it to
fsnotify_alloc_group so it is clear what it is doing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:50 -04:00
Eric Paris
cd7752ce7c fsnotify: fsnotify_obtain_group kzalloc cleanup
fsnotify_obtain_group uses kzalloc but then proceedes to set things to 0.
This patch just deletes those useless lines.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:50 -04:00
Eric Paris
74be0cc828 fsnotify: remove group_num altogether
The original fsnotify interface has a group-num which was intended to be
able to find a group after it was added.  I no longer think this is a
necessary thing to do and so we remove the group_num.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:50 -04:00
Eric Paris
cac69dad32 fsnotify: lock annotation for event replacement
fsnotify_replace_event need to lock both the old and the new event.  This
causes lockdep to get all pissed off since it dosn't know this is safe.
It's safe in this case since the new event is impossible to be reached from
other places in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:50 -04:00
Eric Paris
1201a5361b fsnotify: replace an event on a list
fanotify would like to clone events already on its notification list, make
changes to the new event, and then replace the old event on the list with
the new event.  This patch implements the replace functionality of that
process.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:49 -04:00
Eric Paris
b4e4e14073 fsnotify: clone existing events
fsnotify_clone_event will take an event, clone it, and return the cloned
event to the caller.  Since events may be in use by multiple fsnotify
groups simultaneously certain event entries (such as the mask) cannot be
changed after the event was created.  Since fanotify would like to merge
events happening on the same file it needs a new clean event to work with
so it can change any fields it wishes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:49 -04:00
Eric Paris
74766bbfa9 fsnotify: per group notification queue merge types
inotify only wishes to merge a new event with the last event on the
notification fifo.  fanotify is willing to merge any events including by
means of bitwise OR masks of multiple events together.  This patch moves
the inotify event merging logic out of the generic fsnotify notification.c
and into the inotify code.  This allows each use of fsnotify to provide
their own merge functionality.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:49 -04:00
Eric Paris
28c60e37f8 fsnotify: send struct file when sending events to parents when possible
fanotify needs a path in order to open an fd to the object which changed.
Currently notifications to inode's parents are done using only the inode.
For some parental notification we have the entire file, send that so
fanotify can use it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:48 -04:00
Eric Paris
8112e2d6a7 fsnotify: include data in should_send calls
fanotify is going to need to look at file->private_data to know if an event
should be sent or not.  This passes the data (which might be a file,
dentry, inode, or none) to the should_send function calls so fanotify can
get that information when available

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:31 -04:00
Eric Paris
7b0a04fbfb fsnotify: provide the data type to should_send_event
fanotify is only interested in event types which contain enough information
to open the original file in the context of the fanotify listener.  Since
fanotify may not want to send events if that data isn't present we pass
the data type to the should_send_event function call so fanotify can express
its lack of interest.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:31 -04:00
Eric Paris
d7f0ce4e43 inotify: do not spam console without limit
inotify was supposed to have a dmesg printk ratelimitor which would cause
inotify to only emit one message per boot.  The static bool was never set
so it kept firing messages.  This patch correctly limits warnings in multiple
places.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:31 -04:00
Eric Paris
2dfc1cae4c inotify: remove inotify in kernel interface
nothing uses inotify in the kernel, drop it!

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:31 -04:00
Eric Paris
7050c48826 inotify: do not reuse watch descriptors
Prior to 2.6.31 inotify would not reuse watch descriptors until all of
them had been used at least once.  After the rewrite inotify would reuse
watch descriptors.  The selinux utility 'restorecond' was found to have
problems when watch descriptors were reused.  This patch reverts to the
pre inotify rewrite behavior to not reuse watch descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:20 -04:00
Eric Paris
6f3a539e3b fsnotify: use kmem_cache_zalloc to simplify event initialization
fsnotify event initialization is done entry by entry with almost everything
set to either 0 or NULL.  Use kmem_cache_zalloc and only initialize things
that need non-zero initialization.  Also means we don't have to change
initialization entries based on the config options.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:20 -04:00
Eric Paris
f0553af054 fsnotify: kzalloc fsnotify groups
Use kzalloc for fsnotify_groups so that none of the fields can leak any
information accidentally.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:20 -04:00
Eric Paris
31ddd3268d inotify: use container_of instead of casting
inotify_free_mark casts directly from an fsnotify_mark_entry to an
inotify_inode_mark_entry.  This works, but should use container_of instead
for future proofing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:19 -04:00
Eric Paris
b4277d3dd5 fsnotify: use fsnotify_create_event to allocate the q_overflow event
Currently fsnotify defines a static fsnotify event which is sent when a
group overflows its allotted queue length.  This patch just allocates that
event from the event cache rather than defining it statically.  There is no
known reason that the current implementation is wrong, but this makes sure the
event is initialized and created like any other.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:19 -04:00
Eric Paris
40554c3dae fsnotify: allow addition of duplicate fsnotify marks
This patch allows a task to add a second fsnotify mark to an inode for the
same group.  This mark will be added to the end of the inode's list and
this will never be found by the stand fsnotify_find_mark() function.   This
is useful if a user wants to add a new mark before removing the old one.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:17 -04:00
Eric Paris
9e1c74321d fsnotify: duplicate fsnotify_mark_entry data between 2 marks
Simple copy fsnotify information from one mark to another in preparation
for the second mark to replace the first.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:17 -04:00
Eric Paris
b7ba837153 inotify: simplify the inotify idr handling
This patch moves all of the idr editing operations into their own idr
functions.  It makes it easier to prove locking correctness and to to
understand the code flow.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:16 -04:00
Al Viro
1712ac8fda Saner locking around deactivate_super()
Make sure that s_umount is acquired *before* we drop the final
active reference; we still have the fast path (atomic_dec_unless)
and we have gotten rid of the window between the moment when
s_active hits zero and s_umount is acquired.  Which simplifies
the living hell out of grab_super() and inotify pin_to_kill()
stuff.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:14 -04:00
Al Viro
b20bd1a5e7 get rid of S_BIAS
use atomic_inc_not_zero(&sb->s_active) instead of playing games with
checking ->s_count > S_BIAS

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:14 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
4fc4c3ce0d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
  inotify: don't leak user struct on inotify release
  inotify: race use after free/double free in inotify inode marks
  inotify: clean up the inotify_add_watch out path
  Inotify: undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd'

Manual merge to remove duplicate "select ANON_INODES" from Kconfig file
2010-05-14 11:49:42 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
b3b38d842f inotify: don't leak user struct on inotify release
inotify_new_group() receives a get_uid-ed user_struct and saves the
reference on group->inotify_data.user.  The problem is that free_uid() is
never called on it.

Issue seem to be introduced by 63c882a0 (inotify: reimplement inotify
using fsnotify) after 2.6.30.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-05-14 11:53:36 -04:00
Eric Paris
e08733446e inotify: race use after free/double free in inotify inode marks
There is a race in the inotify add/rm watch code.  A task can find and
remove a mark which doesn't have all of it's references.  This can
result in a use after free/double free situation.

Task A					Task B
------------				-----------
inotify_new_watch()
 allocate a mark (refcnt == 1)
 add it to the idr
					inotify_rm_watch()
					 inotify_remove_from_idr()
					  fsnotify_put_mark()
					      refcnt hits 0, free
 take reference because we are on idr
 [at this point it is a use after free]
 [time goes on]
 refcnt may hit 0 again, double free

The fix is to take the reference BEFORE the object can be found in the
idr.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-05-14 11:52:57 -04:00
Eric Paris
3dbc6fb6a3 inotify: clean up the inotify_add_watch out path
inotify_add_watch explictly frees the unused inode mark, but it can just
use the generic code.  Just do that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-05-14 11:51:07 -04:00
Russell King
e7b702b1a8 Inotify: undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd'
Fix:

fs/built-in.o: In function `sys_inotify_init1':
summary.c:(.text+0x347a4): undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd'

found by kautobuild with arms bcmring_defconfig, which ends up with
INOTIFY_USER enabled (through the 'default y') but leaves ANON_INODES
unset.  However, inotify_user.c uses anon_inode_getfd().

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-05-12 11:03:40 -04:00
Ralf Baechle
12b1b32168 Inotify: Fix build failure in inotify user support
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER defined but CONFIG_ANON_INODES undefined will result
in the following build failure:

    LD      vmlinux
  fs/built-in.o: In function 'sys_inotify_init1':
  (.text.sys_inotify_init1+0x22c): undefined reference to 'anon_inode_getfd'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `sys_inotify_init1':
  (.text.sys_inotify_init1+0x22c): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against 'anon_inode_getfd'
  make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
  make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
  make: *** [all] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-30 10:14:56 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Al Viro
c44dcc56d2 switch inotify_user to anon_inode
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-19 03:35:12 -05:00
Eric Paris
976ae32be4 inotify: only warn once for inotify problems
inotify will WARN() if it finds that the idr and the fsnotify internals
somehow got out of sync.  It was only supposed to do this once but due
to this stupid bug it would warn every single time a problem was
detected.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-15 14:49:23 -08:00
Eric Paris
9e572cc987 inotify: do not reuse watch descriptors
Since commit 7e790dd5fc ("inotify: fix
error paths in inotify_update_watch") inotify changed the manor in which
it gave watch descriptors back to userspace.  Previous to this commit
inotify acted like the following:

  inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1
  inotify_rm_watch(X, 1);
  inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 2

but after this patch inotify would return watch descriptors like so:

  inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1
  inotify_rm_watch(X, 1);
  inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1

which I saw as equivalent to opening an fd where

  open(file) = 1;
  close(1);
  open(file) = 1;

seemed perfectly reasonable.  The issue is that quite a bit of userspace
apparently relies on the behavior in which watch descriptors will not be
quickly reused.  KDE relies on it, I know some selinux packages rely on
it, and I have heard complaints from other random sources such as debian
bug 558981.

Although the man page implies what we do is ok, we broke userspace so
this patch almost reverts us to the old behavior.  It is still slightly
racey and I have patches that would fix that, but they are rather large
and this will fix it for all real world cases.  The race is as follows:

 - task1 creates a watch and blocks in idr_new_watch() before it updates
   the hint.
 - task2 creates a watch and updates the hint.
 - task1 updates the hint with it's older wd
 - task removes the watch created by task2
 - task adds a new watch and will reuse the wd originally given to task2

it requires moving some locking around the hint (last_wd) but this should
solve it for the real world and be -stable safe.

As a side effect this patch papers over a bug in the lib/idr code which
is causing a large number WARN's to pop on people's system and many
reports in kerneloops.org.  I'm working on the root cause of that idr
bug seperately but this should make inotify immune to that issue.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-15 14:49:23 -08:00