3.6.11.4 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Zhao Hongjiang [ Upstream commit 04df32fa10ab9a6f0643db2949d42efc966bc844 ] When we run the crackerjack testsuite, the inotify_add_watch test is stalled. This is caused by the invalid mask 0 - the task is waiting for the event but it never comes. inotify_add_watch() should return -EINVAL as it did before commit 676a0675cf92 ("inotify: remove broken mask checks causing unmount to be EINVAL"). That commit removes the invalid mask check, but that check is needed. Check the mask's ALL_INOTIFY_BITS before the inotify_arg_to_mask() call. If none are set, just return -EINVAL. Because IN_UNMOUNT is in ALL_INOTIFY_BITS, this change will not trigger the problem that above commit fixed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang Acked-by: Jim Somerville Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Eric Paris Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c index 8445fbc..7e15ab0 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -577,7 +577,6 @@ static int inotify_update_existing_watch(struct fsnotify_group *group, int add = (arg & IN_MASK_ADD); int ret; - /* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */ mask = inotify_arg_to_mask(arg); if (unlikely(!(mask & IN_ALL_EVENTS))) return -EINVAL; @@ -630,7 +629,6 @@ static int inotify_new_watch(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct idr *idr = &group->inotify_data.idr; spinlock_t *idr_lock = &group->inotify_data.idr_lock; - /* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */ mask = inotify_arg_to_mask(arg); if (unlikely(!(mask & IN_ALL_EVENTS))) return -EINVAL; @@ -761,6 +759,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(inotify_add_watch, int, fd, const char __user *, pathname, int ret, fput_needed; unsigned flags = 0; + /* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */ + if (unlikely(!(mask & ALL_INOTIFY_BITS))) + return -EINVAL; + filp = fget_light(fd, &fput_needed); if (unlikely(!filp)) return -EBADF; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/