linux.git/fs/notify/notification.c, branch v3.11

Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify

2012-12-21T04:11:52+00:00

Pull filesystem notification updates from Eric Paris:
 "This pull mostly is about locking changes in the fsnotify system.  By
  switching the group lock from a spin_lock() to a mutex() we can now
  hold the lock across things like iput().  This fixes a problem
  involving unmounting a fs and having inodes be busy, first pointed out
  by FAT, but reproducible with tmpfs.

  This also restores signal driven I/O for inotify, which has been
  broken since about 2.6.32."

Ugh.  I *hate* the timing of this.  It was rebased after the merge
window opened, and then left to sit with the pull request coming the day
before the merge window closes.  That's just crap.  But apparently the
patches themselves have been around for over a year, just gathering
dust, so now it's suddenly critical.

Fixed up semantic conflict in fs/notify/fdinfo.c as per Stephen
Rothwell's fixes from -next.

* 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
  inotify: automatically restart syscalls
  inotify: dont skip removal of watch descriptor if creation of ignored event failed
  fanotify: dont merge permission events
  fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify
  fsnotify: change locking order
  fsnotify: dont put marks on temporary list when clearing marks by group
  fsnotify: introduce locked versions of fsnotify_add_mark() and fsnotify_remove_mark()
  fsnotify: pass group to fsnotify_destroy_mark()
  fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list
  fanotify: add an extra flag to mark_remove_from_mask that indicates wheather a mark should be destroyed
  fsnotify: take groups mark_lock before mark lock
  fsnotify: use reference counting for groups
  fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group()
  inotify, fanotify: replace fsnotify_put_group() with fsnotify_destroy_group()

fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify

2012-12-11T18:44:36+00:00

inotify is supposed to support async signal notification when information
is available on the inotify fd.  This patch moves that support to generic
fsnotify functions so it can be used by all notification mechanisms.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.

2012-11-19T13:32:13+00:00

"Asynchronous" is misspelled in some comments. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

fs/notify/notification.c: make subsys_initcall function static

2012-03-23T23:58:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00

This allows us to move duplicated code in 
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to 

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "fsnotify: store struct file not struct path"

2010-08-12T21:23:04+00:00

This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4ff9bbc522820b4b765e65e4deceb3e (and the
accompanying commit c1e5c954020e "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay
the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at
all).

The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it
somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with
f_count handling.

Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput

2010-07-28T14:18:51+00:00

fanotify almost works like so:

user context calls fsnotify_* function with a struct file.
   fsnotify takes a reference on the struct path
user context goes about it's buissiness

at some later point in time the fsnotify listener gets the struct path
   fanotify listener calls dentry_open() to create a file which userspace can deal with
      listener drops the reference on the struct path
at some later point the listener calls close() on it's new file

With the switch from struct path to struct file this presents a problem for
fput() and fsnotify_close().  fsnotify_close() is called when the filp has
already reached 0 and __fput() wants to do it's cleanup.

The solution presented here is a bit odd.  If an event is created from a
struct file we take a reference on the file.  We check however if the f_count
was already 0 and if so we take an EXTRA reference EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ZERO.
In __fput() (where we know the f_count hit 0 once) we check if the f_count is
non-zero and if so we drop that 'extra' ref and return without destroying the
file.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

fsnotify: store struct file not struct path

2010-07-28T14:18:51+00:00

Al explains that calling dentry_open() with a mnt/dentry pair is only
garunteed to be safe if they are already used in an open struct file.  To
make sure this is the case don't store and use a struct path in fsnotify,
always use a struct file.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

fsnotify: fsnotify_add_notify_event should return an event

2010-07-28T14:18:50+00:00

Rather than the horrific void ** argument and such just to pass the
fanotify_merge event back to the caller of fsnotify_add_notify_event() have
those things return an event if it was different than the event suggusted to
be added.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

fsnotify: add pr_debug throughout

2010-07-28T14:18:50+00:00

It can be hard to debug fsnotify since there are so few printks.  Use
pr_debug to allow for dynamic debugging.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris