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fanotify: FAN_MARK_FLUSH: avoid having to provide a fake/invalid fd and path
authorHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:55:27 +0000 (08:55 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:55:27 +0000 (08:55 +1000)
commit47dcd7743d768ac8544be0a844681709fcc82d70
treecf1537e32c3747dfb56234852439d844a4defc7c
parent970395c41ed9043cdbf5f45b546148c6c23838a3
fanotify: FAN_MARK_FLUSH: avoid having to provide a fake/invalid fd and path

Originally from Tvrtko Ursulin (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/12/112)

Avoid having to provide a fake/invalid fd and path when flushing marks

Currently for a group to flush marks it has set it needs to provide a fake
or invalid (but resolvable) file descriptor and path when calling
fanotify_mark.  This patch pulls the flush handling a bit up so file
descriptor and path are completely ignored when flushing.

I reworked the patch to be applicable again (the signature of fanotify_mark
has changed since Tvrtko's work).

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c