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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-10 19:30:08 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-10 19:30:08 +0200
commit3dd392a407d15250a501fa109cc1f93fee95ef85 (patch)
treec1faca3fa8bd0f7c8790b3e0887229b4a5a90e8b /fs/inotify_user.c
parentb27a43c1e90582facad44de67d02bc9e9f900289 (diff)
parentd403a6484f0341bf0624d17ece46f24f741b6a92 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pat2
Conflicts: arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/inotify_user.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/inotify_user.c27
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inotify_user.c b/fs/inotify_user.c
index 60249429a253..d85c7d931cdf 100644
--- a/fs/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/inotify_user.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ out:
}
/*
- * remove_kevent - cleans up and ultimately frees the given kevent
+ * remove_kevent - cleans up the given kevent
*
* Caller must hold dev->ev_mutex.
*/
@@ -334,7 +334,13 @@ static void remove_kevent(struct inotify_device *dev,
dev->event_count--;
dev->queue_size -= sizeof(struct inotify_event) + kevent->event.len;
+}
+/*
+ * free_kevent - frees the given kevent.
+ */
+static void free_kevent(struct inotify_kernel_event *kevent)
+{
kfree(kevent->name);
kmem_cache_free(event_cachep, kevent);
}
@@ -350,6 +356,7 @@ static void inotify_dev_event_dequeue(struct inotify_device *dev)
struct inotify_kernel_event *kevent;
kevent = inotify_dev_get_event(dev);
remove_kevent(dev, kevent);
+ free_kevent(kevent);
}
}
@@ -433,17 +440,15 @@ static ssize_t inotify_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
dev = file->private_data;
while (1) {
- int events;
prepare_to_wait(&dev->wq, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
mutex_lock(&dev->ev_mutex);
- events = !list_empty(&dev->events);
- mutex_unlock(&dev->ev_mutex);
- if (events) {
+ if (!list_empty(&dev->events)) {
ret = 0;
break;
}
+ mutex_unlock(&dev->ev_mutex);
if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
ret = -EAGAIN;
@@ -462,7 +467,6 @@ static ssize_t inotify_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if (ret)
return ret;
- mutex_lock(&dev->ev_mutex);
while (1) {
struct inotify_kernel_event *kevent;
@@ -481,6 +485,13 @@ static ssize_t inotify_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
}
break;
}
+ remove_kevent(dev, kevent);
+
+ /*
+ * Must perform the copy_to_user outside the mutex in order
+ * to avoid a lock order reversal with mmap_sem.
+ */
+ mutex_unlock(&dev->ev_mutex);
if (copy_to_user(buf, &kevent->event, event_size)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
@@ -498,7 +509,9 @@ static ssize_t inotify_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
count -= kevent->event.len;
}
- remove_kevent(dev, kevent);
+ free_kevent(kevent);
+
+ mutex_lock(&dev->ev_mutex);
}
mutex_unlock(&dev->ev_mutex);