[PATCH] fix race in inotify_release
While doing some inotify stress testing, I hit the following race. In
inotify_release(), it's possible for a watch to be removed from the lists
in between dropping dev->mutex and taking inode->inotify_mutex. The
reference we hold prevents the watch from being freed, but not from being
removed.
Checking the dev's idr mapping will prevent a double list_del of the
same watch.
Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Acked-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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