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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-07-28 10:18:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-07-28 10:18:51 -0400 |
| commit | 3bcf3860a4ff9bbc522820b4b765e65e4deceb3e (patch) | |
| tree | 1e235af133559062c6fdee840ff9698f1dee26a6 /fs/notify/notification.c | |
| parent | f70ab54cc6c3907b0727ba332b3976f80f3846d0 (diff) | |
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fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
Al explains that calling dentry_open() with a mnt/dentry pair is only
garunteed to be safe if they are already used in an open struct file. To
make sure this is the case don't store and use a struct path in fsnotify,
always use a struct file.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/notification.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/notification.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/notification.c b/fs/notify/notification.c index f39260f8f865..c106cdd7ff5e 100644 --- a/fs/notify/notification.c +++ b/fs/notify/notification.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ * allocated and used. */ +#include <linux/file.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> @@ -89,8 +90,8 @@ void fsnotify_put_event(struct fsnotify_event *event) if (atomic_dec_and_test(&event->refcnt)) { pr_debug("%s: event=%p\n", __func__, event); - if (event->data_type == FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH) - path_put(&event->path); + if (event->data_type == FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE) + fput(event->file); BUG_ON(!list_empty(&event->private_data_list)); @@ -375,8 +376,8 @@ struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_clone_event(struct fsnotify_event *old_event) } } event->tgid = get_pid(old_event->tgid); - if (event->data_type == FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH) - path_get(&event->path); + if (event->data_type == FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE) + get_file(event->file); return event; } @@ -423,11 +424,9 @@ struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_create_event(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, event->data_type = data_type; switch (data_type) { - case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH: { - struct path *path = data; - event->path.dentry = path->dentry; - event->path.mnt = path->mnt; - path_get(&event->path); + case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE: { + event->file = data; + get_file(event->file); break; } case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE: @@ -435,8 +434,7 @@ struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_create_event(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, break; case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE: event->inode = NULL; - event->path.dentry = NULL; - event->path.mnt = NULL; + event->file = NULL; break; default: BUG(); |