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inotify: remove broken mask checks causing unmount to be EINVAL
authorJim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:41:59 +0000 (16:41 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:22:16 +0000 (17:22 -0800)
commitb3d06d6e97879866c589b7b5e4a99db7cfc26129
tree438a1746ac136b8403c0015e95f826cc9243a2fa
parent7a07c05aa6ba13665eafa6ba70c0b7caa0e780ac
inotify: remove broken mask checks causing unmount to be EINVAL

Running the command:

inotifywait -e unmount /mnt/disk

immediately aborts with a -EINVAL return code.  This is however a valid
parameter.  This abort occurs only if unmount is the sole event
parameter.  If other event parameters are supplied, then the unmount
event wait will work.

The problem was introduced by commit 05a50718678 ("inotify: Fix mask
checks").  In that commit, it states:

The mask checks in inotify_update_existing_watch() and
inotify_new_watch() are useless because inotify_arg_to_mask()
sets FS_IN_IGNORED and FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD bits anyway.

But instead of removing the useless checks, it did this:

        mask = inotify_arg_to_mask(arg);
-       if (unlikely(!mask))
+       if (unlikely(!(mask & IN_ALL_EVENTS)))
                return -EINVAL;

The problem is that IN_ALL_EVENTS doesn't include IN_UNMOUNT, and other
parts of the code keep IN_UNMOUNT separate from IN_ALL_EVENTS.  So the
check should be:

if (unlikely(!(mask & (IN_ALL_EVENTS | IN_UNMOUNT))))

But inotify_arg_to_mask(arg) always sets the IN_UNMOUNT bit in the mask
anyway, so the check is always going to pass and thus should simply be
removed.  Also note that inotify_arg_to_mask completely controls what
mask bits get set from arg, there's no way for invalid bits to get
enabled there.

Lets fix it by simply removing the useless broken checks.

Signed-off-by: Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.37+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c