2012-06-04 01:55:09

by John

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Subject: Re: fanotify issues in 2.6.34-rc6-next-20100506

> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 11:24 +0200, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> ... switch statements are hard.

Two years passed, but this patch was never applied
and fanotify is as broken as it has been.
So, two questions:
- does anyone going to finally apply that patch (add "break" before case
(FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE) in should_merge)
- what is the status of fanotify? Does anybody still use it? Does it work (aside
from this bug?)

Just in case, I copied that old patch below:


diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index bbcfccd..34c9661 100644
a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ static bool should_merge(struct fsnotify_event *old, struct
fsnotify_event *new)
if ((old->path.mnt == new->path.mnt) &&
(old->path.dentry == new->path.dentry))
return true;
+ break;
case (FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE):
return true;
default: