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authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>2020-07-08 14:11:40 +0300
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2020-07-15 17:36:52 +0200
commit9991bb84b27a2594187898f261866cfc50255454 (patch)
tree14c649eff406a4d139bfdb16f38ea430f4cc69a2 /fs/kernfs
parent9a02aa40dd5a95a62b184365d5b7847e8e6a3c96 (diff)
downloadlinux-9991bb84b27a2594187898f261866cfc50255454.tar.gz
kernfs: do not call fsnotify() with name without a parent
When creating an FS_MODIFY event on inode itself (not on parent)
the file_name argument should be NULL.

The change to send a non NULL name to inode itself was done on purpuse
as part of another commit, as Tejun writes: "...While at it, supply the
target file name to fsnotify() from kernfs_node->name.".

But this is wrong practice and inconsistent with inotify behavior when
watching a single file.  When a child is being watched (as opposed to the
parent directory) the inotify event should contain the watch descriptor,
but not the file name.

Fixes: df6a58c5c5aa ("kernfs: don't depend on d_find_any_alias()...")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200708111156.24659-5-amir73il@gmail.com
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/kernfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/file.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c
index 06b342d8462b..e23b3f62483c 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c
@@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ repeat:
 		}
 
 		fsnotify(inode, FS_MODIFY, inode, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE,
-			 &name, 0);
+			 NULL, 0);
 		iput(inode);
 	}