From 7c657f2f25d50c602df9291bc6242b98fc090759 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John McCutchan Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:02:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Document idr_get_new_above() semantics, update inotify There is an off by one problem with idr_get_new_above. The comment and function name suggest that it will return an id > starting_id, but it actually returned an id >= starting_id, and kernel callers other than inotify treated it as such. The patch below fixes the comment, and fixes inotifys usage. The function name still doesn't match the behaviour, but it never did. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/inotify.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/inotify.c') diff --git a/fs/inotify.c b/fs/inotify.c index 868901b1e779..2e4e2a57708c 100644 --- a/fs/inotify.c +++ b/fs/inotify.c @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static int inotify_dev_get_wd(struct inotify_device *dev, do { if (unlikely(!idr_pre_get(&dev->idr, GFP_KERNEL))) return -ENOSPC; - ret = idr_get_new_above(&dev->idr, watch, dev->last_wd, &watch->wd); + ret = idr_get_new_above(&dev->idr, watch, dev->last_wd+1, &watch->wd); } while (ret == -EAGAIN); return ret; -- cgit v1.2.3