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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2008-02-06 01:37:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-06 10:41:06 -0800 |
| commit | d599e36a9ea85432587f4550acc113cd7549d12a (patch) | |
| tree | 2baec196271ccafac682b4bdbef3690cca686221 /fs | |
| parent | eea63e0e8a60d00485b47fb6e75d9aa2566b989b (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/inotify.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c index 2c5b92152876..b2b109bf29d6 100644 --- a/fs/inotify.c +++ b/fs/inotify.c @@ -627,6 +627,7 @@ s32 inotify_add_watch(struct inotify_handle *ih, struct inotify_watch *watch, struct inode *inode, u32 mask) { int ret = 0; + int newly_watched; /* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */ mask &= IN_ALL_EVENTS | IN_ONESHOT; @@ -653,12 +654,18 @@ s32 inotify_add_watch(struct inotify_handle *ih, struct inotify_watch *watch, */ watch->inode = igrab(inode); - if (!inotify_inode_watched(inode)) - set_dentry_child_flags(inode, 1); - /* Add the watch to the handle's and the inode's list */ + newly_watched = !inotify_inode_watched(inode); list_add(&watch->h_list, &ih->watches); list_add(&watch->i_list, &inode->inotify_watches); + /* + * Set child flags _after_ adding the watch, so there is no race + * windows where newly instantiated children could miss their parent's + * watched flag. + */ + if (newly_watched) + set_dentry_child_flags(inode, 1); + out: mutex_unlock(&ih->mutex); mutex_unlock(&inode->inotify_mutex); |