Merge tag 'fsnotify_for_v5.2-rc1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull fsnotify fixes from Jan Kara:
"Two fsnotify fixes"
* tag 'fsnotify_for_v5.2-rc1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
fsnotify: fix unlink performance regression
fsnotify: Clarify connector assignment in fsnotify_add_mark_list()
diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
index 5433e37..8c7cbac 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
@@ -108,6 +108,47 @@ void fsnotify_sb_delete(struct super_block *sb)
}
/*
+ * fsnotify_nameremove - a filename was removed from a directory
+ *
+ * This is mostly called under parent vfs inode lock so name and
+ * dentry->d_parent should be stable. However there are some corner cases where
+ * inode lock is not held. So to be on the safe side and be reselient to future
+ * callers and out of tree users of d_delete(), we do not assume that d_parent
+ * and d_name are stable and we use dget_parent() and
+ * take_dentry_name_snapshot() to grab stable references.
+ */
+void fsnotify_nameremove(struct dentry *dentry, int isdir)
+{
+ struct dentry *parent;
+ struct name_snapshot name;
+ __u32 mask = FS_DELETE;
+
+ /* d_delete() of pseudo inode? (e.g. __ns_get_path() playing tricks) */
+ if (IS_ROOT(dentry))
+ return;
+
+ if (isdir)
+ mask |= FS_ISDIR;
+
+ parent = dget_parent(dentry);
+ /* Avoid unneeded take_dentry_name_snapshot() */
+ if (!(d_inode(parent)->i_fsnotify_mask & FS_DELETE) &&
+ !(dentry->d_sb->s_fsnotify_mask & FS_DELETE))
+ goto out_dput;
+
+ take_dentry_name_snapshot(&name, dentry);
+
+ fsnotify(d_inode(parent), mask, d_inode(dentry), FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE,
+ &name.name, 0);
+
+ release_dentry_name_snapshot(&name);
+
+out_dput:
+ dput(parent);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(fsnotify_nameremove);
+
+/*
* Given an inode, first check if we care what happens to our children. Inotify
* and dnotify both tell their parents about events. If we care about any event
* on a child we run all of our children and set a dentry flag saying that the
