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Subject[patch] inotify: idr_get_new_above not working?
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On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 10:16 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:

> Inotify is using idr_get_new_above to make sure that the next watch
> descriptor is larger/different than any of the previous watch
> descriptors. We keep track of the largest wd that we get out of
> idr_get_new_above, and pass that to idr_get_new_above. I have noticed
> though, that idr_get_new_above always returns the first available id.
> This causes a serious problem for inotify, because user space will get a
> IGNORE event for a wd K that might refer to the last holder of the K.

Turns out that the problem was in our court and not the idr layer.
idr_get_new_above() seems to work fine.

One-line patch is attached. Please merge before 2.6.13.

Robert Love


We are saving the wrong thing in ->last_wd. We want the wd, not the return
value.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>

fs/inotify.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc6-git2/fs/inotify.c linux/fs/inotify.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc6-git2/fs/inotify.c 2005-08-09 16:52:16.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/fs/inotify.c 2005-08-15 12:21:18.000000000 -0400
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}

- dev->last_wd = ret;
+ dev->last_wd = watch->wd;
watch->mask = mask;
atomic_set(&watch->count, 0);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&watch->d_list);

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