From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752158AbZH1RUG (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:20:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751954AbZH1RUG (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:20:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:12084 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751835AbZH1RUF (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:20:05 -0400 From: Eric Paris Subject: [PATCH 1/3] inotify: do not send a block of zeros when no pathname is available To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:20:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20090828172004.24585.14234.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Brian Rogers When an event has no pathname, there's no need to pad it with a null byte and therefore generate an inotify_event sized block of zeros. This fixes a regression introduced by commit 0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd where my system wouldn't finish booting because some process was being confused by this. Signed-off-by: Brian Rogers Signed-off-by: Eric Paris --- fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c index 0e781bc..b547ae1 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static ssize_t copy_event_to_user(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_event_private_data *fsn_priv; struct inotify_event_private_data *priv; size_t event_size = sizeof(struct inotify_event); - size_t name_len; + size_t name_len = 0; /* we get the inotify watch descriptor from the event private data */ spin_lock(&event->lock); @@ -196,10 +196,12 @@ static ssize_t copy_event_to_user(struct fsnotify_group *group, inotify_free_event_priv(fsn_priv); } - /* round up event->name_len so it is a multiple of event_size + /* + * round up event->name_len so it is a multiple of event_size * plus an extra byte for the terminating '\0'. */ - name_len = roundup(event->name_len + 1, event_size); + if (event->name_len) + name_len = roundup(event->name_len + 1, event_size); inotify_event.len = name_len; inotify_event.mask = inotify_mask_to_arg(event->mask);