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| author | John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> | 2005-12-12 00:37:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-12-12 08:57:43 -0800 |
| commit | 8140a5005bc6f1c9d0fa103460d50d472e6e3426 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c5ae431bf1db43e3a1e7a4cceb472c76077ac18 /fs | |
| parent | b4788f6d55548e587ced330ece711456f40ec8f1 (diff) | |
[PATCH] inotify: add two inotify_add_watch flags
The below patch lets userspace have more control over the inodes that
inotify will watch. It introduces two new flags.
IN_ONLYDIR -- only watch the inode if it is a directory.
This is needed to avoid the race that can occur when we want to be
sure that we are watching a directory.
IN_DONT_FOLLOW -- don't follow a symlink. In combination
with IN_ONLYDIR we can make sure that we don't watch the target of
symlinks.
The issues the flags fix came up when writing the gnome-vfs inotify
backend. Default behaviour is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Acked-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')
| -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 bf7ce1d2412b..2fecb7af4a77 100644 --- a/fs/inotify.c +++ b/fs/inotify.c @@ -364,11 +364,12 @@ static int inotify_dev_get_wd(struct inotify_device *dev, /* * find_inode - resolve a user-given path to a specific inode and return a nd */ -static int find_inode(const char __user *dirname, struct nameidata *nd) +static int find_inode(const char __user *dirname, struct nameidata *nd, + unsigned flags) { int error; - error = __user_walk(dirname, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, nd); + error = __user_walk(dirname, flags, nd); if (error) return error; /* you can only watch an inode if you have read permissions on it */ @@ -933,6 +934,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_inotify_add_watch(int fd, const char __user *path, u32 mask) struct file *filp; int ret, fput_needed; int mask_add = 0; + unsigned flags = 0; filp = fget_light(fd, &fput_needed); if (unlikely(!filp)) @@ -944,7 +946,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_inotify_add_watch(int fd, const char __user *path, u32 mask) goto fput_and_out; } - ret = find_inode(path, &nd); + if (!(mask & IN_DONT_FOLLOW)) + flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW; + if (mask & IN_ONLYDIR) + flags |= LOOKUP_DIRECTORY; + + ret = find_inode(path, &nd, flags); if (unlikely(ret)) goto fput_and_out; |