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| author | John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> | 2005-08-04 13:07:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-08-04 13:11:15 -0700 |
| commit | e234f35c54a30d040313e40833dcf623d14629b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e23053de3e84c1d8f54531a52fda68cee2bf03b /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | 3de11748c1b312833e8a148ab7ec47669ecc99dc (diff) | |
[PATCH] inotify delete race fix
The included patch fixes a problem where a inotify client would receive a
delete event before the file was actually deleted. The bug affects both
dnotify & inotify.
Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 4a27eb798118..83559dce4286 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1801,8 +1801,8 @@ int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) } up(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem); if (!error) { - fsnotify_rmdir(dentry, dentry->d_inode, dir); d_delete(dentry); + fsnotify_rmdir(dentry, dentry->d_inode, dir); } dput(dentry); @@ -1874,8 +1874,14 @@ int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) /* We don't d_delete() NFS sillyrenamed files--they still exist. */ if (!error && !(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) { +#if defined(CONFIG_INOTIFY) || defined(CONFIG_DNOTIFY) + dget(dentry); + d_delete(dentry); fsnotify_unlink(dentry, dir); + dput(dentry); +#else d_delete(dentry); +#endif } return error; |