linux-kernel - Re: fanotify issues in 2.6.34-rc6-next-20100506

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Date:	Fri, 07 May 2010 12:57:01 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@...trol.lth.se>
Cc:	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fanotify issues in 2.6.34-rc6-next-20100506

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 11:24 +0200, Anders Blomdell wrote:

> seems to lose/corrupt events. For instance running 'fanotify -c /dir/to/watch'
> and then running the command 'cd /dir/to/watch ; touch a b c d e f g h i j k l'
>  might generate (results are more or less random):

sometimes I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer.  switch statements
are hard.

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index bbcfccd..34c9661 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ static bool should_merge(struct fsnotify_event *old, struct fsnotify_event *new)
 			if ((old->path.mnt == new->path.mnt) &&
 			    (old->path.dentry == new->path.dentry))
 				return true;
+			break;
 		case (FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE):
 			return true;
 		default:


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