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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-08-16 21:51:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-08-17 13:37:37 -0700 |
| commit | eef3a116be11d35396efb2a8cc7345fd3221e294 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a5d0b36dd5985f29eac43f51b03e610e40b7c9b /fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c | |
| parent | 0f66f96d21b4bbff49baaa337546e687d7c58e87 (diff) | |
notify: unused event private race
inotify decides if private data it passed to get added to an event was
used by checking list_empty(). But it's possible that the event may
have been dequeued and the private event removed so it would look empty.
The fix is to use the return code from fsnotify_add_notify_event rather
than looking at the list.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c index 47cd258fd24d..5dcbafe72d71 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c @@ -62,13 +62,14 @@ static int inotify_handle_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_ev event_priv->wd = wd; ret = fsnotify_add_notify_event(group, event, fsn_event_priv); - /* EEXIST is not an error */ - if (ret == -EEXIST) - ret = 0; - - /* did event_priv get attached? */ - if (list_empty(&fsn_event_priv->event_list)) + if (ret) { inotify_free_event_priv(fsn_event_priv); + /* EEXIST says we tail matched, EOVERFLOW isn't something + * to report up the stack. */ + if ((ret == -EEXIST) || + (ret == -EOVERFLOW)) + ret = 0; + } /* * If we hold the entry until after the event is on the queue |