notify: unused event private race
inotify decides if private data it passed to get added to an event was
used by checking list_empty(). But it's possible that the event may
have been dequeued and the private event removed so it would look empty.
The fix is to use the return code from fsnotify_add_notify_event rather
than looking at the list.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
index 47cd258..5dcbafe 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
@@ -62,13 +62,14 @@
event_priv->wd = wd;
ret = fsnotify_add_notify_event(group, event, fsn_event_priv);
- /* EEXIST is not an error */
- if (ret == -EEXIST)
- ret = 0;
-
- /* did event_priv get attached? */
- if (list_empty(&fsn_event_priv->event_list))
+ if (ret) {
inotify_free_event_priv(fsn_event_priv);
+ /* EEXIST says we tail matched, EOVERFLOW isn't something
+ * to report up the stack. */
+ if ((ret == -EEXIST) ||
+ (ret == -EOVERFLOW))
+ ret = 0;
+ }
/*
* If we hold the entry until after the event is on the queue