[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 <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
John McCutchan 2005-08-04 13:07:08 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3de11748c1
commit e234f35c54
1 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -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;