Commit a68c2f12 authored by Scott Wolchok's avatar Scott Wolchok Committed by Linus Torvalds

sendfile: allows bypassing of notifier events

do_sendfile() in fs/read_write.c does not call the fsnotify functions,
unlike its neighbors.  This manifests as a lack of inotify ACCESS events
when a file is sent using sendfile(2).

Addresses
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12812

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use fsnotify_modify(out.file), not fsnotify_access(), per Dave]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Scott Wolchok <swolchok@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 891348ca
......@@ -935,6 +935,8 @@ ssize_t do_sendfile(int out_fd, int in_fd, loff_t *ppos, size_t count,
if (retval > 0) {
add_rchar(current, retval);
add_wchar(current, retval);
fsnotify_access(in.file);
fsnotify_modify(out.file);
}
inc_syscr(current);
......
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