fsnotify: store struct file not struct path

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>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Paris
2010-07-28 10:18:37 -04:00
parent f70ab54cc6
commit 3bcf3860a4
8 changed files with 56 additions and 63 deletions

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@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ static bool should_merge(struct fsnotify_event *old, struct fsnotify_event *new)
old->data_type == new->data_type &&
old->tgid == new->tgid) {
switch (old->data_type) {
case (FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH):
if ((old->path.mnt == new->path.mnt) &&
(old->path.dentry == new->path.dentry))
case (FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE):
if ((old->file->f_path.mnt == new->file->f_path.mnt) &&
(old->file->f_path.dentry == new->file->f_path.dentry))
return true;
case (FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE):
return true;
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static bool fanotify_should_send_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct inod
return false;
/* if we don't have enough info to send an event to userspace say no */
if (data_type != FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH)
if (data_type != FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE)
return false;
if (mnt)