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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] truncate: generate fanotify and inotify events
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 00:43:59 +0300
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Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
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To: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 11:33:16PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> The fanotify and the inotify API can be used to monitor changes of the file
> system.
> 
> System call truncate modifies files. Hence it should trigger the corresponding
> fanotify and inotify events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
> ---
>  fs/open.c                |  5 +++
>  include/linux/fsnotify.h | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  security/security.c      |  7 +++-
>  3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
> index d6fd3ac..be45e58 100644
> --- a/fs/open.c
> +++ b/fs/open.c
> @@ -104,12 +104,17 @@ long vfs_truncate(struct path *path, loff_t length)
>  	if (!error)
>  		error = security_path_truncate(path);
>  	if (!error)
> +		fsnotify_open_path(path);
>  		error = do_truncate(path->dentry, length, 0, NULL);

This is obviously broken.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov