Commit 0b1b8652 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Linus Torvalds

fanotify: fix possible false warning when freeing events

When freeing permission events by fsnotify_destroy_event(), the warning
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&event->list)); may falsely hit.

This is because although fanotify_get_response() saw event->response
set, there is nothing to make sure the current CPU also sees the removal
of the event from the list.  Add proper locking around the WARN_ON() to
avoid the false warning.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-7-git-send-email-jack@suse.czReported-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 073f6552
......@@ -74,8 +74,17 @@ void fsnotify_destroy_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
/* Overflow events are per-group and we don't want to free them */
if (!event || event->mask == FS_Q_OVERFLOW)
return;
/* If the event is still queued, we have a problem... */
/*
* If the event is still queued, we have a problem... Do an unreliable
* lockless check first to avoid locking in the common case. The
* locking may be necessary for permission events which got removed
* from the list by a different CPU than the one freeing the event.
*/
if (!list_empty(&event->list)) {
spin_lock(&group->notification_lock);
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&event->list));
spin_unlock(&group->notification_lock);
}
group->ops->free_event(event);
}
......
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