This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
inotify: invalid mask should return a error number but not set it
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
inotify-invalid-mask-should-return-a-error-number-but-not-set-it.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 04df32fa10ab9a6f0643db2949d42efc966bc844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:26:46 -0700
Subject: inotify: invalid mask should return a error number but not set it
From: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 04df32fa10ab9a6f0643db2949d42efc966bc844 upstream.
When we run the crackerjack testsuite, the inotify_add_watch test is
stalled.
This is caused by the invalid mask 0 - the task is waiting for the event
but it never comes. inotify_add_watch() should return -EINVAL as it did
before commit 676a0675cf92 ("inotify: remove broken mask checks causing
unmount to be EINVAL"). That commit removes the invalid mask check, but
that check is needed.
Check the mask's ALL_INOTIFY_BITS before the inotify_arg_to_mask() call.
If none are set, just return -EINVAL.
Because IN_UNMOUNT is in ALL_INOTIFY_BITS, this change will not trigger
the problem that above commit fixed.
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -577,7 +577,6 @@ static int inotify_update_existing_watch
int add = (arg & IN_MASK_ADD);
int ret;
- /* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */
mask = inotify_arg_to_mask(arg);
fsn_mark = fsnotify_find_inode_mark(group, inode);
@@ -628,7 +627,6 @@ static int inotify_new_watch(struct fsno
struct idr *idr = &group->inotify_data.idr;
spinlock_t *idr_lock = &group->inotify_data.idr_lock;
- /* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */
mask = inotify_arg_to_mask(arg);
tmp_i_mark = kmem_cache_alloc(inotify_inode_mark_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -757,6 +755,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(inotify_add_watch, int,
int ret, fput_needed;
unsigned flags = 0;
+ /* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */
+ if (unlikely(!(mask & ALL_INOTIFY_BITS)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
filp = fget_light(fd, &fput_needed);
if (unlikely(!filp))
return -EBADF;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhaohongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/inotify-invalid-mask-should-return-a-error-number-but-not-set-it.patch
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