Commit cd94c8bb authored Aug 16, 2009 by Eric Paris Committed by Linus Torvalds Aug 17, 2009

inotify: tail drop inotify q_overflow events



In f44aebcc the tail drop logic of events with no file backing
(q_overflow and in_ignored) was reversed so IN_IGNORED events would
never be tail dropped.  This now means that Q_OVERFLOW events are NOT
tail dropped.  The fix is to not tail drop IN_IGNORED, but to tail drop
Q_OVERFLOW.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent eef3a116

fs/notify/notification.c

+4 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ static bool event_compare(struct fsnotify_event old, struct fsnotify_event new
		return true;
		break;
		case (FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE):
		if (old->mask & FS_Q_OVERFLOW)
		return true;
		else if (old->mask & FS_IN_IGNORED)
		return false;
		return false;
		};
		}