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    fsnotify: fix events reported to watching parent and child · fecc4559
    Amir Goldstein authored
    fsnotify_parent() used to send two separate events to backends when a
    parent inode is watching children and the child inode is also watching.
    In an attempt to avoid duplicate events in fanotify, we unified the two
    backend callbacks to a single callback and handled the reporting of the
    two separate events for the relevant backends (inotify and dnotify).
    However the handling is buggy and can result in inotify and dnotify
    listeners receiving events of the type they never asked for or spurious
    events.
    
    The problem is the unified event callback with two inode marks (parent and
    child) is called when any of the parent and child inodes are watched and
    interested in the event, but the parent inode's mark that is interested
    in the event on the child is not necessarily the one we are currently
    reporting to (it could belong to a different group).
    
    So before reporting the parent or child event flavor to backend we need
    to check that the mark is really interested in that event flavor.
    
    The semantics of INODE and CHILD marks were hard to follow and made the
    logic more complicated than it should have been.  Replace it with INODE
    and PARENT marks semantics to hopefully make the logic more clear.
    
    Thanks to Hugh Dickins for spotting a bug in the earlier version of this
    patch.
    
    Fixes: 497b0c5a ("fsnotify: send event to parent and child with single callback")
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202120713.702387-4-amir73il@gmail.comReported-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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