[PATCH] fsnotify_name/inoderemove

The patch below unhooks fsnotify from vfs_unlink & vfs_rmdir.  It
introduces two new fsnotify calls, that are hooked in at the dcache
level.  This not only more closely matches how the VFS layer works, it
also avoids the problem with locking and inode lifetimes.

The two functions are

 - fsnotify_nameremove -- called when a directory entry is going away.
   It notifies the PARENT of the deletion.  This is called from
   d_delete().

 - inoderemove -- called when the files inode itself is going away.  It
   notifies the inode that is being deleted.  This is called from
   dentry_iput().

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 3aa8a7e980d8..a15a2e1f5520 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ static inline void dentry_iput(struct dentry * dentry)
 		list_del_init(&dentry->d_alias);
 		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 		spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+		fsnotify_inoderemove(inode);
 		if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_iput)
 			dentry->d_op->d_iput(dentry, inode);
 		else
@@ -1165,13 +1167,16 @@ out:
  
 void d_delete(struct dentry * dentry)
 {
+	int isdir = 0;
 	/*
 	 * Are we the only user?
 	 */
 	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
 	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+	isdir = S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode);
 	if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) == 1) {
 		dentry_iput(dentry);
+		fsnotify_nameremove(dentry, isdir);
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -1180,6 +1185,8 @@ void d_delete(struct dentry * dentry)
 
 	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+
+	fsnotify_nameremove(dentry, isdir);
 }
 
 static void __d_rehash(struct dentry * entry, struct hlist_head *list)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 32accb6a672f..57046d98a746 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1802,7 +1802,6 @@ int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	up(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
 	if (!error) {
 		d_delete(dentry);
-		fsnotify_rmdir(dentry, dentry->d_inode, dir);
 	}
 	dput(dentry);
 
@@ -1874,9 +1873,7 @@ int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 
 	/* We don't d_delete() NFS sillyrenamed files--they still exist. */
 	if (!error && !(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) {
-		struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
 		d_delete(dentry);
-		fsnotify_unlink(dentry, inode, dir);
 	}
 
 	return error;