fanotify: fix notification of groups with inode & mount marks

fsnotify() needs to merge inode and mount marks lists when notifying
groups about events so that ignore masks from inode marks are reflected
in mount mark notifications and groups are notified in proper order
(according to priorities).

Currently the sorting of the lists done by fsnotify_add_inode_mark() /
fsnotify_add_vfsmount_mark() and fsnotify() differed which resulted
ignore masks not being used in some cases.

Fix the problem by always using the same comparison function when
sorting / merging the mark lists.

Thanks to Heinrich Schuchardt for improvements of my patch.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87721
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/mark.c b/fs/notify/mark.c
index d90deaa08e78..34c38fabf514 100644
--- a/fs/notify/mark.c
+++ b/fs/notify/mark.c
@@ -210,6 +210,42 @@ void fsnotify_set_mark_ignored_mask_locked(struct fsnotify_mark *mark, __u32 mas
 }
 
 /*
+ * Sorting function for lists of fsnotify marks.
+ *
+ * Fanotify supports different notification classes (reflected as priority of
+ * notification group). Events shall be passed to notification groups in
+ * decreasing priority order. To achieve this marks in notification lists for
+ * inodes and vfsmounts are sorted so that priorities of corresponding groups
+ * are descending.
+ *
+ * Furthermore correct handling of the ignore mask requires processing inode
+ * and vfsmount marks of each group together. Using the group address as
+ * further sort criterion provides a unique sorting order and thus we can
+ * merge inode and vfsmount lists of marks in linear time and find groups
+ * present in both lists.
+ *
+ * A return value of 1 signifies that b has priority over a.
+ * A return value of 0 signifies that the two marks have to be handled together.
+ * A return value of -1 signifies that a has priority over b.
+ */
+int fsnotify_compare_groups(struct fsnotify_group *a, struct fsnotify_group *b)
+{
+	if (a == b)
+		return 0;
+	if (!a)
+		return 1;
+	if (!b)
+		return -1;
+	if (a->priority < b->priority)
+		return 1;
+	if (a->priority > b->priority)
+		return -1;
+	if (a < b)
+		return 1;
+	return -1;
+}
+
+/*
  * Attach an initialized mark to a given group and fs object.
  * These marks may be used for the fsnotify backend to determine which
  * event types should be delivered to which group.