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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 732648b..f6ac6a2 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -813,6 +813,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(fanotify_mark, int, fanotify_fd, unsigned int, flags,
            group->priority == FS_PRIO_0)
                goto fput_and_out;
 
+       if (flags & FAN_MARK_FLUSH) {
+               ret = 0;
+               if (flags & FAN_MARK_MOUNT)
+                       fsnotify_clear_vfsmount_marks_by_group(group);
+               else
+                       fsnotify_clear_inode_marks_by_group(group);
+               goto fput_and_out;
+       }
+
        ret = fanotify_find_path(dfd, pathname, &path, flags);
        if (ret)
                goto fput_and_out;
@@ -824,7 +833,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(fanotify_mark, int, fanotify_fd, unsigned int, flags,
                mnt = path.mnt;
 
        /* create/update an inode mark */
-       switch (flags & (FAN_MARK_ADD | FAN_MARK_REMOVE | FAN_MARK_FLUSH)) {
+       switch (flags & (FAN_MARK_ADD | FAN_MARK_REMOVE)) {
        case FAN_MARK_ADD:
                if (flags & FAN_MARK_MOUNT)
                        ret = fanotify_add_vfsmount_mark(group, mnt, mask, flags);
@@ -837,12 +846,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(fanotify_mark, int, fanotify_fd, unsigned int, flags,
                else
                        ret = fanotify_remove_inode_mark(group, inode, mask, flags);
                break;
-       case FAN_MARK_FLUSH:
-               if (flags & FAN_MARK_MOUNT)
-                       fsnotify_clear_vfsmount_marks_by_group(group);
-               else
-                       fsnotify_clear_inode_marks_by_group(group);
-               break;
        default:
                ret = -EINVAL;
        }