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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-08-24 16:03:35 -0400
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-08-27 08:02:04 -0400
commitcf4374267fbe966e8e4e7db68f5dc7b267439780 (patch)
tree60871fa44df49a8581e2afb06f493e768a058b86 /fs/notify/inotify
parent52cef7555adf5ca09b3b7283097466759120d901 (diff)
inotify: do not BUG on idr entries at inotify destruction
If an inotify watch is left in the idr when an fsnotify group is destroyed this will lead to a BUG. This is not a dangerous situation and really indicates a programming bug and leak of memory. This patch changes it to use a WARN and a printk rather than killing people's boxes. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c33
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
index 5dcbafe72d71..c9ee67b442e1 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
@@ -105,16 +105,45 @@ static bool inotify_should_send_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct inode
105 return send; 105 return send;
106} 106}
107 107
108/*
109 * This is NEVER supposed to be called. Inotify marks should either have been
110 * removed from the idr when the watch was removed or in the
111 * fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_group() call when the inotify instance was being
112 * torn down. This is only called if the idr is about to be freed but there
113 * are still marks in it.
114 */
108static int idr_callback(int id, void *p, void *data) 115static int idr_callback(int id, void *p, void *data)
109{ 116{
110 BUG(); 117 struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry;
118 struct inotify_inode_mark_entry *ientry;
119 static bool warned = false;
120
121 if (warned)
122 return 0;
123
124 warned = false;
125 entry = p;
126 ientry = container_of(entry, struct inotify_inode_mark_entry, fsn_entry);
127
128 WARN(1, "inotify closing but id=%d for entry=%p in group=%p still in "
129 "idr. Probably leaking memory\n", id, p, data);
130
131 /*
132 * I'm taking the liberty of assuming that the mark in question is a
133 * valid address and I'm dereferencing it. This might help to figure
134 * out why we got here and the panic is no worse than the original
135 * BUG() that was here.
136 */
137 if (entry)
138 printk(KERN_WARNING "entry->group=%p inode=%p wd=%d\n",
139 entry->group, entry->inode, ientry->wd);
111 return 0; 140 return 0;
112} 141}
113 142
114static void inotify_free_group_priv(struct fsnotify_group *group) 143static void inotify_free_group_priv(struct fsnotify_group *group)
115{ 144{
116 /* ideally the idr is empty and we won't hit the BUG in teh callback */ 145 /* ideally the idr is empty and we won't hit the BUG in teh callback */
117 idr_for_each(&group->inotify_data.idr, idr_callback, NULL); 146 idr_for_each(&group->inotify_data.idr, idr_callback, group);
118 idr_remove_all(&group->inotify_data.idr); 147 idr_remove_all(&group->inotify_data.idr);
119 idr_destroy(&group->inotify_data.idr); 148 idr_destroy(&group->inotify_data.idr);
120} 149}