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Commit bdae997f authored by Keith Packard's avatar Keith Packard Committed by Eric Paris
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fs/notify/inotify: decrement user inotify count on close 



The per-user inotify_devs value is incremented each time a new file is
allocated, but never decremented. This led to inotify_init failing after a
limited number of calls.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
parent d960eea9

fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c

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@@ -296,12 +296,15 @@ static int inotify_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int on) 
static int inotify_release(struct inode *ignored, struct file *file)

{

	struct fsnotify_group *group = file->private_data;

	struct user_struct *user = group->inotify_data.user;



	fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group(group);



	/* free this group, matching get was inotify_init->fsnotify_obtain_group */

	fsnotify_put_group(group);



	atomic_dec(&user->inotify_devs);



	return 0;

}