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2016-10-07fsnotify: clean up spinlock assertionsJan Kara1-6/+3
Use assert_spin_locked() macro instead of hand-made BUG_ON statements. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474537439-18919-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Suggested-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-07fanotify: fix possible false warning when freeing eventsJan Kara1-2/+11
When freeing permission events by fsnotify_destroy_event(), the warning WARN_ON(!list_empty(&event->list)); may falsely hit. This is because although fanotify_get_response() saw event->response set, there is nothing to make sure the current CPU also sees the removal of the event from the list. Add proper locking around the WARN_ON() to avoid the false warning. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-7-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-07fsnotify: convert notification_mutex to a spinlockJan Kara1-12/+15
notification_mutex is used to protect the list of pending events. As such there's no reason to use a sleeping lock for it. Convert it to a spinlock. [jack@suse.cz: fixed version] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474031567-1831-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-5-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-07fsnotify: drop notification_mutex before destroying eventJan Kara1-0/+2
fsnotify_flush_notify() and fanotify_release() destroy notification event while holding notification_mutex. The destruction of fanotify event includes a path_put() call which may end up calling into a filesystem to delete an inode if we happen to be the last holders of dentry reference which happens to be the last holder of inode reference. That in turn may violate lock ordering for some filesystems since notification_mutex is also acquired e. g. during write when generating fanotify event. Also this is the only thing that forces notification_mutex to be a sleeping lock. So drop notification_mutex before destroying a notification event. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-4-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-09-19fanotify: fix list corruption in fanotify_get_response()Jan Kara1-15/+0
fanotify_get_response() calls fsnotify_remove_event() when it finds that group is being released from fanotify_release() (bypass_perm is set). However the event it removes need not be only in the group's notification queue but it can have already moved to access_list (userspace read the event before closing the fanotify instance fd) which is protected by a different lock. Thus when fsnotify_remove_event() races with fanotify_release() operating on access_list, the list can get corrupted. Fix the problem by moving all the logic removing permission events from the lists to one place - fanotify_release(). Fixes: 5838d4442bd5 ("fanotify: fix double free of pending permission events") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Tested-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-09-19fsnotify: add a way to stop queueing events on group shutdownJan Kara1-1/+7
Implement a function that can be called when a group is being shutdown to stop queueing new events to the group. Fanotify will use this. Fixes: 5838d4442bd5 ("fanotify: fix double free of pending permission events") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-2-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06fanotify: fix double free of pending permission eventsJan Kara1-1/+17
Commit 85816794240b ("fanotify: Fix use after free for permission events") introduced a double free issue for permission events which are pending in group's notification queue while group is being destroyed. These events are freed from fanotify_handle_event() but they are not removed from groups notification queue and thus they get freed again from fsnotify_flush_notify(). Fix the problem by removing permission events from notification queue before freeing them if we skip processing access response. Also expand comments in fanotify_release() to explain group shutdown in detail. Fixes: 85816794240b9659e66e4d9b0df7c6e814e5f603 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Douglas Leeder <douglas.leeder@sophos.com> Tested-by: Douglas Leeder <douglas.leeder@sophos.com> Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchard <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06fsnotify: rename event handling functionsJan Kara1-9/+10
Rename fsnotify_add_notify_event() to fsnotify_add_event() since the "notify" part is duplicit. Rename fsnotify_remove_notify_event() and fsnotify_peek_notify_event() to fsnotify_remove_first_event() and fsnotify_peek_first_event() respectively since "notify" part is duplicit and they really look at the first event in the queue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-25fsnotify: Allocate overflow events with proper typeJan Kara1-2/+2
Commit 7053aee26a35 "fsnotify: do not share events between notification groups" used overflow event statically allocated in a group with the size of the generic notification event. This causes problems because some code looks at type specific parts of event structure and gets confused by a random data it sees there and causes crashes. Fix the problem by allocating overflow event with type corresponding to the group type so code cannot get confused. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-02-25fanotify: Handle overflow in case of permission eventsJan Kara1-4/+10
If the event queue overflows when we are handling permission event, we will never get response from userspace. So we must avoid waiting for it. Change fsnotify_add_notify_event() to return whether overflow has happened so that we can detect it in fanotify_handle_event() and act accordingly. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-02-25fsnotify: Fix detection whether overflow event is queuedJan Kara1-1/+5
Currently we didn't initialize event's list head when we removed it from the event list. Thus a detection whether overflow event is already queued wasn't working. Fix it by always initializing the list head when deleting event from a list. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-01-29fsnotify: Do not return merged event from fsnotify_add_notify_event()Jan Kara1-12/+12
The event returned from fsnotify_add_notify_event() cannot ever be used safely as the event may be freed by the time the function returns (after dropping notification_mutex). So change the prototype to just return whether the event was added or merged into some existing event. Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-01-21fsnotify: do not share events between notification groupsJan Kara1-306/+28
Currently fsnotify framework creates one event structure for each notification event and links this event into all interested notification groups. This is done so that we save memory when several notification groups are interested in the event. However the need for event structure shared between inotify & fanotify bloats the event structure so the result is often higher memory consumption. Another problem is that fsnotify framework keeps path references with outstanding events so that fanotify can return open file descriptors with its events. This has the undesirable effect that filesystem cannot be unmounted while there are outstanding events - a regression for inotify compared to a situation before it was converted to fsnotify framework. For fanotify this problem is hard to avoid and users of fanotify should kind of expect this behavior when they ask for file descriptors from notified files. This patch changes fsnotify and its users to create separate event structure for each group. This allows for much simpler code (~400 lines removed by this patch) and also smaller event structures. For example on 64-bit system original struct fsnotify_event consumes 120 bytes, plus additional space for file name, additional 24 bytes for second and each subsequent group linking the event, and additional 32 bytes for each inotify group for private data. After the conversion inotify event consumes 48 bytes plus space for file name which is considerably less memory unless file names are long and there are several groups interested in the events (both of which are uncommon). Fanotify event fits in 56 bytes after the conversion (fanotify doesn't care about file names so its events don't have to have it allocated). A win unless there are four or more fanotify groups interested in the event. The conversion also solves the problem with unmount when only inotify is used as we don't have to grab path references for inotify events. [hughd@google.com: fanotify: fix corruption preventing startup] Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-20Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notifyLinus Torvalds1-0/+1
Pull filesystem notification updates from Eric Paris: "This pull mostly is about locking changes in the fsnotify system. By switching the group lock from a spin_lock() to a mutex() we can now hold the lock across things like iput(). This fixes a problem involving unmounting a fs and having inodes be busy, first pointed out by FAT, but reproducible with tmpfs. This also restores signal driven I/O for inotify, which has been broken since about 2.6.32." Ugh. I *hate* the timing of this. It was rebased after the merge window opened, and then left to sit with the pull request coming the day before the merge window closes. That's just crap. But apparently the patches themselves have been around for over a year, just gathering dust, so now it's suddenly critical. Fixed up semantic conflict in fs/notify/fdinfo.c as per Stephen Rothwell's fixes from -next. * 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: inotify: automatically restart syscalls inotify: dont skip removal of watch descriptor if creation of ignored event failed fanotify: dont merge permission events fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify fsnotify: change locking order fsnotify: dont put marks on temporary list when clearing marks by group fsnotify: introduce locked versions of fsnotify_add_mark() and fsnotify_remove_mark() fsnotify: pass group to fsnotify_destroy_mark() fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list fanotify: add an extra flag to mark_remove_from_mask that indicates wheather a mark should be destroyed fsnotify: take groups mark_lock before mark lock fsnotify: use reference counting for groups fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group() inotify, fanotify: replace fsnotify_put_group() with fsnotify_destroy_group()
2012-12-11fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotifyEric Paris1-0/+1
inotify is supposed to support async signal notification when information is available on the inotify fd. This patch moves that support to generic fsnotify functions so it can be used by all notification mechanisms. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-11-19various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.Adam Buchbinder1-1/+1
"Asynchronous" is misspelled in some comments. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-03-23fs/notify/notification.c: make subsys_initcall function staticH Hartley Sweeten1-2/+1
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma1-1/+1
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12Revert "fsnotify: store struct file not struct path"Linus Torvalds1-22/+11
This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4ff9bbc522820b4b765e65e4deceb3e (and the accompanying commit c1e5c954020e "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at all). The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with f_count handling. Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-28vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fputEric Paris1-0/+13
fanotify almost works like so: user context calls fsnotify_* function with a struct file. fsnotify takes a reference on the struct path user context goes about it's buissiness at some later point in time the fsnotify listener gets the struct path fanotify listener calls dentry_open() to create a file which userspace can deal with listener drops the reference on the struct path at some later point the listener calls close() on it's new file With the switch from struct path to struct file this presents a problem for fput() and fsnotify_close(). fsnotify_close() is called when the filp has already reached 0 and __fput() wants to do it's cleanup. The solution presented here is a bit odd. If an event is created from a struct file we take a reference on the file. We check however if the f_count was already 0 and if so we take an EXTRA reference EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ZERO. In __fput() (where we know the f_count hit 0 once) we check if the f_count is non-zero and if so we drop that 'extra' ref and return without destroying the file. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: store struct file not struct pathEric Paris1-11/+9
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>
2010-07-28fsnotify: fsnotify_add_notify_event should return an eventEric Paris1-14/+28
Rather than the horrific void ** argument and such just to pass the fanotify_merge event back to the caller of fsnotify_add_notify_event() have those things return an event if it was different than the event suggusted to be added. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: add pr_debug throughoutEric Paris1-0/+13
It can be hard to debug fsnotify since there are so few printks. Use pr_debug to allow for dynamic debugging. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: use unsigned char * for dentry->d_name.nameEric Paris1-2/+2
fsnotify was using char * when it passed around the d_name.name string internally but it is actually an unsigned char *. This patch switches fsnotify to use unsigned and should silence some pointer signess warnings which have popped out of xfs. I do not add -Wpointer-sign to the fsnotify code as there are still issues with kstrdup and strlen which would pop out needless warnings. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: intoduce a notification merge argumentEric Paris1-2/+5
Each group can define their own notification (and secondary_q) merge function. Inotify does tail drop, fanotify does matching and drop which can actually allocate a completely new event. But for fanotify to properly deal with permissions events it needs to know the new event which was ultimately added to the notification queue. This patch just implements a void ** argument which is passed to the merge function. fanotify can use this field to pass the new event back to higher layers. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> for fanotify to properly deal with permissions events
2010-07-28fanotify: Add pids to eventsAndreas Gruenbacher1-0/+3
Pass the process identifiers of the triggering processes to fanotify listeners: this information is useful for event filtering and logging. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: kill FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILEAndreas Gruenbacher1-9/+0
Some fsnotify operations send a struct file. This is more information than we technically need. We instead send a struct path in all cases instead of sometimes a path and sometimes a file. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: lock annotation for event replacementEric Paris1-28/+13
fsnotify_replace_event need to lock both the old and the new event. This causes lockdep to get all pissed off since it dosn't know this is safe. It's safe in this case since the new event is impossible to be reached from other places in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: replace an event on a listEric Paris1-0/+56
fanotify would like to clone events already on its notification list, make changes to the new event, and then replace the old event on the list with the new event. This patch implements the replace functionality of that process. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: clone existing eventsEric Paris1-4/+25
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>
2010-07-28fsnotify: per group notification queue merge typesEric Paris1-54/+19
inotify only wishes to merge a new event with the last event on the notification fifo. fanotify is willing to merge any events including by means of bitwise OR masks of multiple events together. This patch moves the inotify event merging logic out of the generic fsnotify notification.c and into the inotify code. This allows each use of fsnotify to provide their own merge functionality. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: use kmem_cache_zalloc to simplify event initializationEric Paris1-12/+1
fsnotify event initialization is done entry by entry with almost everything set to either 0 or NULL. Use kmem_cache_zalloc and only initialize things that need non-zero initialization. Also means we don't have to change initialization entries based on the config options. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: use fsnotify_create_event to allocate the q_overflow eventEric Paris1-4/+7
Currently fsnotify defines a static fsnotify event which is sent when a group overflows its allotted queue length. This patch just allocates that event from the event cache rather than defining it statically. There is no known reason that the current implementation is wrong, but this makes sure the event is initialized and created like any other. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-10-18inotify: fix coalesce duplicate events into a single event in special caseWei Yongjun1-1/+1
If we do rename a dir entry, like this: rename("/tmp/ino7UrgoJ.rename1", "/tmp/ino7UrgoJ.rename2") rename("/tmp/ino7UrgoJ.rename2", "/tmp/ino7UrgoJ") The duplicate events should be coalesced into a single event. But those two events do not be coalesced into a single event, due to some bad check in event_compare(). It can not match the two NULL inodes as the same event. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-08-17inotify: tail drop inotify q_overflow eventsEric Paris1-0/+4
In f44aebcc the tail drop logic of events with no file backing (q_overflow and in_ignored) was reversed so IN_IGNORED events would never be tail dropped. This now means that Q_OVERFLOW events are NOT tail dropped. The fix is to not tail drop IN_IGNORED, but to tail drop Q_OVERFLOW. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-17notify: unused event private raceEric Paris1-4/+3
inotify decides if private data it passed to get added to an event was used by checking list_empty(). But it's possible that the event may have been dequeued and the private event removed so it would look empty. The fix is to use the return code from fsnotify_add_notify_event rather than looking at the list. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-21inotify: use GFP_NOFS under potential memory pressureEric Paris1-4/+5
inotify can have a watchs removed under filesystem reclaim. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.31-rc2 #16 --------------------------------- inconsistent {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} -> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} usage. khubd/217 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (iprune_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<c10ba899>] invalidate_inodes+0x20/0xe3 {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} state was registered at: [<c10536ab>] __lock_acquire+0x2c9/0xac4 [<c1053f45>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0xc2 [<c1308872>] __mutex_lock_common+0x2d/0x323 [<c1308c00>] mutex_lock_nested+0x2e/0x36 [<c10ba6ff>] shrink_icache_memory+0x38/0x1b2 [<c108bfb6>] shrink_slab+0xe2/0x13c [<c108c3e1>] kswapd+0x3d1/0x55d [<c10449b5>] kthread+0x66/0x6b [<c1003fdf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff Two things are needed to fix this. First we need a method to tell fsnotify_create_event() to use GFP_NOFS and second we need to stop using one global IN_IGNORED event and allocate them one at a time. This solves current issues with multiple IN_IGNORED on a queue having tail drop problems and simplifies the allocations since we don't have to worry about two tasks opperating on the IGNORED event concurrently. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21fsnotify: fix inotify tail drop check with path entriesEric Paris1-0/+1
fsnotify drops new events when they are the same as the tail event on the queue to be sent to userspace. The problem is that if the event comes with a path we forget to break out of the switch statement and fall into the code path which matches on events that do not have any type of file backed information (things like IN_UNMOUNT and IN_Q_OVERFLOW). The problem is that this code thinks all such events should be dropped. Fix is to add a break. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21inotify: check filename before dropping repeat eventsEric Paris1-2/+7
inotify drops events if the last event on the queue is the same as the current event. But it does 2 things wrong. First it is comparing old->inode with new->inode. But after an event if put on the queue the ->inode is no longer allowed to be used. It's possible between the last event and this new event the inode could be reused and we would falsely match the inode's memory address between two differing events. The second problem is that when a file is removed fsnotify is passed the negative dentry for the removed object rather than the postive dentry from immediately before the removal. This mean the (broken) inotify tail drop code was matching the NULL ->inode of differing events. The fix is to check the file name which is stored with events when doing the tail drop instead of wrongly checking the address of the stored ->inode. Reported-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-06-11fsnotify: allow groups to add private data to eventsEric Paris1-4/+48
inotify needs per group information attached to events. This patch allows groups to attach private information and implements a callback so that information can be freed when an event is being destroyed. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11fsnotify: add correlations between eventsEric Paris1-2/+18
As part of the standard inotify events it includes a correlation cookie between two dentry move operations. This patch includes the same behaviour in fsnotify events. It is needed so that inotify userspace can be implemented on top of fsnotify. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possibleEric Paris1-1/+15
When inotify wants to send events to a directory about a child it includes the name of the original file. This patch collects that filename and makes it available for notification. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11fsnotify: generic notification queue and waitqEric Paris1-7/+223
inotify needs to do asyc notification in which event information is stored on a queue until the listener is ready to receive it. This patch implements a generic notification queue for inotify (and later fanotify) to store events to be sent at a later time. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backendEric Paris1-0/+121
fsnotify is a backend for filesystem notification. fsnotify does not provide any userspace interface but does provide the basis needed for other notification schemes such as dnotify. fsnotify can be extended to be the backend for inotify or the upcoming fanotify. fsnotify provides a mechanism for "groups" to register for some set of filesystem events and to then deliver those events to those groups for processing. fsnotify has a number of benefits, the first being actually shrinking the size of an inode. Before fsnotify to support both dnotify and inotify an inode had unsigned long i_dnotify_mask; /* Directory notify events */ struct dnotify_struct *i_dnotify; /* for directory notifications */ struct list_head inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */ struct mutex inotify_mutex; /* protects the watches list But with fsnotify this same functionallity (and more) is done with just __u32 i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events for this inode */ struct hlist_head i_fsnotify_mark_entries; /* marks on this inode */ That's right, inotify, dnotify, and fanotify all in 64 bits. We used that much space just in inotify_watches alone, before this patch set. fsnotify object lifetime and locking is MUCH better than what we have today. inotify locking is incredibly complex. See 8f7b0ba1c8539 as an example of what's been busted since inception. inotify needs to know internal semantics of superblock destruction and unmounting to function. The inode pinning and vfs contortions are horrible. no fsnotify implementers do allocation under locks. This means things like f04b30de3 which (due to an overabundance of caution) changes GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOFS can be reverted. There are no longer any allocation rules when using or implementing your own fsnotify listener. fsnotify paves the way for fanotify. In brief fanotify is a notification mechanism that delivers the lisener both an 'event' and an open file descriptor to the object in question. This means that fanotify is pathname agnostic. Some on lkml may not care for the original companies or users that pushed for TALPA, but fanotify was designed with flexibility and input for other users in mind. The readahead group expressed interest in fanotify as it could be used to profile disk access on boot without breaking the audit system. The desktop search groups have also expressed interest in fanotify as it solves a number of the race conditions and problems present with managing inotify when more than a limited number of specific files are of interest. fanotify can provide for a userspace access control system which makes it a clean interface for AV vendors to hook without trying to do binary patching on the syscall table, LSM, and everywhere else they do their things today. With this patch series fanotify can be implemented in less than 1200 lines of easy to review code. Almost all of which is the socket based user interface. This patch series builds fsnotify to the point that it can implement dnotify and inotify_user. Patches exist and will be sent soon after acceptance to finish the in kernel inotify conversion (audit) and implement fanotify. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>