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Eric Paris ecf081d1a7 vfs: introduce FMODE_NONOTIFY
This is a new f_mode which can only be set by the kernel.  It indicates
that the fd was opened by fanotify and should not cause future fanotify
events.  This is needed to prevent fanotify livelock.  An example of
obvious livelock is from fanotify close events.

Process A closes file1
This creates a close event for file1.
fanotify opens file1 for Listener X
Listener X deals with the event and closes its fd for file1.
This creates a close event for file1.
fanotify opens file1 for Listener X
Listener X deals with the event and closes its fd for file1.
This creates a close event for file1.
fanotify opens file1 for Listener X
Listener X deals with the event and closes its fd for file1.
notice a pattern?

The fix is to add the FMODE_NONOTIFY bit to the open filp done by the kernel
for fanotify.  Thus when that file is used it will not generate future
events.

This patch simply defines the bit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
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acpi ACPI: skip checking BM_STS if the BIOS doesn't ask for it 2010-07-22 16:54:27 -04:00
asm-generic vfs: introduce FMODE_NONOTIFY 2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Add ablkcipher_walk interfaces 2010-05-19 14:13:07 +10:00
drm drm/ttm: Allocate the page pool manager in the heap. 2010-07-07 12:14:11 +10:00
keys
linux vfs: introduce FMODE_NONOTIFY 2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00
math-emu math-emu: correct test for downshifting fraction in _FP_FROM_INT() 2010-07-20 18:45:14 -07:00
media V4L/DVB: tuner: Add a definition for the Philips FQ1236 MK5 NTSC tuner 2010-07-08 16:49:53 -03:00
mtd
net net sched: fix race in mirred device removal 2010-07-24 21:04:20 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: remove unused mem_op.h 2010-05-10 10:23:20 +02:00
rdma IB/core: Allow device-specific per-port sysfs files 2010-05-21 10:34:44 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi SCSI: implement sd_unlock_native_capacity() 2010-06-02 13:50:04 -04:00
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 2010-05-20 09:41:44 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-06-10 09:30:09 -07:00
video fbdev: move FBIO_WAITFORVSYNC to linux/fb.h 2010-05-25 08:07:09 -07:00
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