From e234f35c54a30d040313e40833dcf623d14629b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John McCutchan Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:07:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] inotify delete race fix The included patch fixes a problem where a inotify client would receive a delete event before the file was actually deleted. The bug affects both dnotify & inotify. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan Signed-off-by: Robert Love Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/namei.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 4a27eb798118..83559dce4286 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1801,8 +1801,8 @@ int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) } up(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem); if (!error) { - fsnotify_rmdir(dentry, dentry->d_inode, dir); d_delete(dentry); + fsnotify_rmdir(dentry, dentry->d_inode, dir); } dput(dentry); @@ -1874,8 +1874,14 @@ int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) /* We don't d_delete() NFS sillyrenamed files--they still exist. */ if (!error && !(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) { - fsnotify_unlink(dentry, dir); +#if defined(CONFIG_INOTIFY) || defined(CONFIG_DNOTIFY) + dget(dentry); d_delete(dentry); + fsnotify_unlink(dentry, dir); + dput(dentry); +#else + d_delete(dentry); +#endif } return error;