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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-02-06 04:37:28 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-06 13:41:06 -0500
commitd599e36a9ea85432587f4550acc113cd7549d12a (patch)
tree2baec196271ccafac682b4bdbef3690cca686221 /mm
parenteea63e0e8a60d00485b47fb6e75d9aa2566b989b (diff)
inotify: fix race
There is a race between setting an inode's children's "parent watched" flag when placing the first watch on a parent, and instantiating new children of that parent: a child could miss having its flags set by set_dentry_child_flags, but then inotify_d_instantiate might still see !inotify_inode_watched. The solution is to set_dentry_child_flags after adding the watch. Locking is taken care of, because both set_dentry_child_flags and inotify_d_instantiate hold dcache_lock and child->d_locks. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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