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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 25789d45fad8..3a7fff235539 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -363,6 +363,9 @@ extern struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_create_event(struct inode *to_tell, __u32
                                                     void *data, int data_is, const char *name,
                                                     u32 cookie, gfp_t gfp);
 
+/* fanotify likes to change events after they are on lists... */
+extern struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_clone_event(struct fsnotify_event *old_event);
+
 #else
 
 static inline void fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, void *data, int data_is,