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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/20] kernfs: do not call fsnotify() with name without a parent
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:11:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200629161129.GA629636@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200612093343.5669-6-amir73il@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:33:28PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> When creating an FS_MODIFY event on inode itself (not on parent)
> the file_name argument should be NULL.
> 
> The change to send a non NULL name to inode itself was done on purpuse
> as part of another commit, as Tejun writes: "...While at it, supply the
> target file name to fsnotify() from kernfs_node->name.".
> 
> But this is wrong practice and inconsistent with inotify behavior when
> watching a single file.  When a child is being watched (as opposed to the
> parent directory) the inotify event should contain the watch descriptor,
> but not the file name.
> 
> Fixes: df6a58c5c5aa ("kernfs: don't depend on d_find_any_alias()...")
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-29 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-12  9:33 [PATCH 00/20] Prep work for fanotify named events Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 01/20] fsnotify: Rearrange fast path to minimise overhead when there is no watcher Amir Goldstein
2020-07-03 14:03   ` Jan Kara
2020-07-04  9:30     ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-06 11:05       ` Jan Kara
2020-07-09 17:56         ` fsnotify: minimise overhead when there are no marks with ignore mask Amir Goldstein
2020-07-26 15:20           ` fsnotify: minimise overhead when there are no marks related to sb Amir Goldstein
2020-07-27  7:44             ` Jan Kara
2020-07-27 10:02               ` Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 02/20] fsnotify: fold fsnotify() call into fsnotify_parent() Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 03/20] fsnotify: return non const from fsnotify_data_inode() Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 04/20] nfsd: use fsnotify_data_inode() to get the unlinked inode Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12 10:25   ` Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 05/20] kernfs: do not call fsnotify() with name without a parent Amir Goldstein
2020-06-29 13:27   ` Tejun Heo
2020-06-29 16:11   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 06/20] inotify: do not use objectid when comparing events Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 07/20] fanotify: create overflow event type Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 08/20] fanotify: break up fanotify_alloc_event() Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 09/20] fsnotify: pass dir argument to handle_event() callback Amir Goldstein
2020-07-03 14:49   ` Jan Kara
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 10/20] fanotify: generalize the handling of extra event flags Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 11/20] fanotify: generalize merge logic of events on dir Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 12/20] fanotify: distinguish between fid encode error and null fid Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 13/20] fanotify: generalize test for FAN_REPORT_FID Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 14/20] fanotify: mask out special event flags from ignored mask Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 15/20] fanotify: prepare for implicit event flags in mark mask Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 16/20] fanotify: use FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD as implicit flag on sb/mount/non-dir marks Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 17/20] fanotify: remove event FAN_DIR_MODIFY Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 18/20] fsnotify: add object type "child" to object type iterator Amir Goldstein
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 19/20] fanotify: move event name into fanotify_fh Amir Goldstein
2020-07-03 16:02   ` Jan Kara
2020-07-06  8:21     ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-06 15:24       ` Jan Kara
2020-06-12  9:33 ` [PATCH 20/20] fanotify: no external fh buffer in fanotify_name_event Amir Goldstein

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