From 936e927ece9bddd9153764c3ae9fb12709593536 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amir Goldstein Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 14:11:40 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] kernfs: do not call fsnotify() with name without a parent [ Upstream commit 9991bb84b27a2594187898f261866cfc50255454 ] When creating an FS_MODIFY event on inode itself (not on parent) the file_name argument should be NULL. The change to send a non NULL name to inode itself was done on purpuse as part of another commit, as Tejun writes: "...While at it, supply the target file name to fsnotify() from kernfs_node->name.". But this is wrong practice and inconsistent with inotify behavior when watching a single file. When a child is being watched (as opposed to the parent directory) the inotify event should contain the watch descriptor, but not the file name. Fixes: df6a58c5c5aa ("kernfs: don't depend on d_find_any_alias()...") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200708111156.24659-5-amir73il@gmail.com Acked-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- fs/kernfs/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c index e8c792b49616..c35bbaa19486 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/file.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c @@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ repeat: } fsnotify(inode, FS_MODIFY, inode, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE, - &name, 0); + NULL, 0); iput(inode); }