fsnotify: Do not return merged event from fsnotify_add_notify_event()
The event returned from fsnotify_add_notify_event() cannot ever be used
safely as the event may be freed by the time the function returns (after
dropping notification_mutex). So change the prototype to just return
whether the event was added or merged into some existing event.
Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
diff --git a/fs/notify/notification.c b/fs/notify/notification.c
index 952237b..18b3c44 100644
--- a/fs/notify/notification.c
+++ b/fs/notify/notification.c
@@ -79,15 +79,15 @@
/*
* Add an event to the group notification queue. The group can later pull this
- * event off the queue to deal with. If the event is successfully added to the
- * group's notification queue, a reference is taken on event.
+ * event off the queue to deal with. The function returns 0 if the event was
+ * added to the queue, 1 if the event was merged with some other queued event.
*/
-struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_add_notify_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
- struct fsnotify_event *event,
- struct fsnotify_event *(*merge)(struct list_head *,
- struct fsnotify_event *))
+int fsnotify_add_notify_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
+ struct fsnotify_event *event,
+ int (*merge)(struct list_head *,
+ struct fsnotify_event *))
{
- struct fsnotify_event *return_event = NULL;
+ int ret = 0;
struct list_head *list = &group->notification_list;
pr_debug("%s: group=%p event=%p\n", __func__, group, event);
@@ -98,14 +98,14 @@
/* Queue overflow event only if it isn't already queued */
if (list_empty(&group->overflow_event.list))
event = &group->overflow_event;
- return_event = event;
+ ret = 1;
}
if (!list_empty(list) && merge) {
- return_event = merge(list, event);
- if (return_event) {
+ ret = merge(list, event);
+ if (ret) {
mutex_unlock(&group->notification_mutex);
- return return_event;
+ return ret;
}
}
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
wake_up(&group->notification_waitq);
kill_fasync(&group->fsn_fa, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
- return return_event;
+ return ret;
}
/*