linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/notify/inotify: decrement user inotify count on close

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Date:	Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:57:50 +0200
From:	Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@...il.com>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	john@...nmccutchan.com, rlove@...ve.org, eparis@...isplace.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/notify/inotify: decrement user inotify count on close

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 17:46, Alex Riesen<raa.lkml@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 14:14, Eric Paris<eparis@...hat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 21:56 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
>>> The per-user inotify_devs value is incremented each time a new file is
>>> allocated, but never decremented. This led to inotify_init failing after a
>>> limited number of calls.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
>>
>> Thanks, I will push to Linus later today, sorry about the regression!
>>
>
> Hmm... Either the patch wasn't enough, or it was broken again.

The bug seem to be known since 2.6.28:

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12754
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