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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, 22 May 2014 00:42:24 +0000 (10:42 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 22 May 2014 00:42:24 +0000 (10:42 +1000)
commitaedca08d0f9d3437ec9766ce13b5991c78173dd7
treee953d94c54848b6c4bb7ca78da250ad685bb7542
parent732374becc9be44894895f6b7ddeaf3ed71d6351
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