From 7ea6040b0eff07d3a9a4e2d248ac137c6ad02d42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John McCutchan Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:18:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] inotify: fix event loss on hardlinked files People have run into a problem when they do this: watch (file1, all_events); watch (file2, some_events); if file2 is a hard link to file1, some events will be missed because by default we replace the mask. The patch below adds a flag IN_MASK_ADD which will cause inotify to add to the existing mask if present. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan Signed-off-by: Robert Love Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/inotify.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c index 2fd97ef547f..a37e9fb1da5 100644 --- a/fs/inotify.c +++ b/fs/inotify.c @@ -931,6 +931,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_inotify_add_watch(int fd, const char __user *path, u32 mask) struct nameidata nd; struct file *filp; int ret, fput_needed; + int mask_add = 0; filp = fget_light(fd, &fput_needed); if (unlikely(!filp)) @@ -953,6 +954,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_inotify_add_watch(int fd, const char __user *path, u32 mask) down(&inode->inotify_sem); down(&dev->sem); + if (mask & IN_MASK_ADD) + mask_add = 1; + /* don't let user-space set invalid bits: we don't want flags set */ mask &= IN_ALL_EVENTS; if (unlikely(!mask)) { @@ -966,7 +970,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_inotify_add_watch(int fd, const char __user *path, u32 mask) */ old = inode_find_dev(inode, dev); if (unlikely(old)) { - old->mask = mask; + if (mask_add) + old->mask |= mask; + else + old->mask = mask; ret = old->wd; goto out; } -- cgit v1.2.3