Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:58:23 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [patch 31/94] inotify: fix type errors in interfaces |
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2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
commit 4ae8978cf92a96257cd8998a49e781be83571d64 upstream.
The problems lie in the types used for some inotify interfaces, both at the kernel level and at the glibc level. This mail addresses the kernel problem. I will follow up with some suggestions for glibc changes.
For the sys_inotify_rm_watch() interface, the type of the 'wd' argument is currently 'u32', it should be '__s32' . That is Robert's suggestion, and is consistent with the other declarations of watch descriptors in the kernel source, in particular, the inotify_event structure in include/linux/inotify.h:
struct inotify_event { __s32 wd; /* watch descriptor */ __u32 mask; /* watch mask */ __u32 cookie; /* cookie to synchronize two events */ __u32 len; /* length (including nulls) of name */ char name[0]; /* stub for possible name */ };
The patch makes the changes needed for inotify_rm_watch().
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- fs/inotify_user.c | 2 +- include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/inotify_user.c @@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ fput_and_out: return ret; } -asmlinkage long sys_inotify_rm_watch(int fd, u32 wd) +asmlinkage long sys_inotify_rm_watch(int fd, __s32 wd) { struct file *filp; struct inotify_device *dev; --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_inotify_init(void); asmlinkage long sys_inotify_init1(int flags); asmlinkage long sys_inotify_add_watch(int fd, const char __user *path, u32 mask); -asmlinkage long sys_inotify_rm_watch(int fd, u32 wd); +asmlinkage long sys_inotify_rm_watch(int fd, __s32 wd); asmlinkage long sys_spu_run(int fd, __u32 __user *unpc, __u32 __user *ustatus);
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