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| author | John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> | 2005-08-01 11:00:45 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-08-01 09:16:53 -0700 |
| commit | 7544953685859875b5ac0260b6b1856066c092d6 (patch) | |
| tree | acfe43ff758f7d7a6d0c575ca0e4f343b3640984 | |
| parent | be2ac68f7b66e90b8d25c168fc4d033b034f5c43 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7544953685859875b5ac0260b6b1856066c092d6.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] inotify: fix file deletion by rename detection
When a file is moved over an existing file that you are watching, inotify won't send you a DELETE_SELF event and it won't unref the inode until the inotify instance is closed by the application. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fsnotify.h | 7 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 02a824cd3c5c..4a27eb798118 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2218,7 +2218,7 @@ int vfs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry, error = vfs_rename_other(old_dir,old_dentry,new_dir,new_dentry); if (!error) { const char *new_name = old_dentry->d_name.name; - fsnotify_move(old_dir, new_dir, old_name, new_name, is_dir); + fsnotify_move(old_dir, new_dir, old_name, new_name, is_dir, new_dentry->d_inode); } fsnotify_oldname_free(old_name); diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify.h b/include/linux/fsnotify.h index d07a92c94776..e96a4306ab3b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ */ static inline void fsnotify_move(struct inode *old_dir, struct inode *new_dir, const char *old_name, const char *new_name, - int isdir) + int isdir, struct inode *target) { u32 cookie = inotify_get_cookie(); @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ static inline void fsnotify_move(struct inode *old_dir, struct inode *new_dir, isdir = IN_ISDIR; inotify_inode_queue_event(old_dir, IN_MOVED_FROM|isdir,cookie,old_name); inotify_inode_queue_event(new_dir, IN_MOVED_TO|isdir, cookie, new_name); + + if (target) { + inotify_inode_queue_event(target, IN_DELETE_SELF, 0, NULL); + inotify_inode_is_dead(target); + } } /* |