Currently we didn't initialize event's list head when we removed it from the event list. Thus a detection whether overflow event is already queued wasn't working. Fix it by always initializing the list head when deleting event from a list. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/notify/notification.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/notify/notification.c b/fs/notify/notification.c index 18b3c4427dca..6bec2f4918f9 100644 --- a/fs/notify/notification.c +++ b/fs/notify/notification.c @@ -132,7 +132,11 @@ struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_remove_notify_event(struct fsnotify_group *group event = list_first_entry(&group->notification_list, struct fsnotify_event, list); - list_del(&event->list); + /* + * We need to init list head for the case of overflow event so that + * check in fsnotify_add_notify_events() works + */ + list_del_init(&event->list); group->q_len--; return event; -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html