linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/10] send events using read

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Message-ID: <19f34abd0911040007i738bfc4eq5481b6c85117d525@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:07:42 +0100
From:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linus-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	hch@...radead.org, agruen@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] send events using read

2009/11/4 Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>:
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 16:59 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Hi, Eric,
>>
>> This is not a full review, but I did notice a problem as I was trying to
>> figure out the new API...
>
> This is a rip off of inotify which was introduced in commit 3632dee2f8b
> from Vegard Nossum back in January.  I can't seem to find any discussion
> of this before it went into Linus' tree, so if someone knows how this
> patch got to Linus and what was said about it, I'd like to know.  Thanks
> for unwittingly finding and inotify bug!

I don't have a git tree handy, but I think this is the locking
imbalance fix. It went to the security list, so that's probably why
you didn't find it. As far as I can tell, the code in question was
wrong even before that patch, though.


Vegard
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