From: Eric Paris Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:28:23 +0000 (-0400) Subject: inotify: drop user watch count when a watch is removed X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc5~81^2~6 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5549f7cdf84c02939fd368d0842aa2f472bb6e98;p=linux.git inotify: drop user watch count when a watch is removed The inotify rewrite forgot to drop the inotify watch use cound when a watch was removed. This means that a single inotify fd can only ever register a maximum of /proc/sys/fs/max_user_watches even if some of those had been freed. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris --- diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c index ff27a2965844..1a870f9157b3 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ void inotify_ignored_and_remove_idr(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry, /* removed from idr, drop that reference */ fsnotify_put_mark(entry); + + atomic_dec(&group->inotify_data.user->inotify_watches); } /* ding dong the mark is dead */