Commit 5549f7cd authored Jul 07, 2009 by Eric Paris

inotify: drop user watch count when a watch is removed



The inotify rewrite forgot to drop the inotify watch use cound when a watch
was removed.  This means that a single inotify fd can only ever register a
maximum of /proc/sys/fs/max_user_watches even if some of those had been
freed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

parent aea1f796

fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ void inotify_ignored_and_remove_idr(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry,

		/* removed from idr, drop that reference */
		fsnotify_put_mark(entry);

		atomic_dec(&group->inotify_data.user->inotify_watches);
		}

		/* ding dong the mark is dead */