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author | Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> | 2010-11-09 18:18:16 +0100 |
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committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-12-07 16:14:21 -0500 |
commit | fa218ab98c31eeacd12b89501e6b99d146ea56cc (patch) | |
tree | 789e0f922fbb30844a89a4aaf707c01991c74ea3 /fs/dcache.c | |
parent | b1085ba80cd2784400a7beec3fda5099198ed01c (diff) | |
download | linux-fa218ab98c31eeacd12b89501e6b99d146ea56cc.tar.bz2 |
fanotify: correct broken ref counting in case adding a mark failed
If adding a mount or inode mark failed fanotify_free_mark() is called explicitly.
But at this time the mark has already been put into the destroy list of the
fsnotify_mark kernel thread. If the thread is too slow it will try to decrease
the reference of a mark, that has already been freed by fanotify_free_mark().
(If its fast enough it will only decrease the marks ref counter from 2 to 1 - note
that the counter has been increased to 2 in add_mark() - which has practically no
effect.)
This patch fixes the ref counting by not calling free_mark() explicitly, but
decreasing the ref counter and rely on the fsnotify_mark thread to cleanup in
case adding the mark has failed.
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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