filesystem notification fixes/cleanup

From: Lino Sanfilippo
Date: Sun Jun 09 2013 - 08:41:40 EST


Hi,

this patch series fixes a couple of races (fanotify/inotify) or simplifies code
(dnotify) by means of the fsnotify groups mark mutex. The last patch updates the
comments in fs/notify/mark.c concerning the changed fsnotify locking implementation.

Regards,
Lino

[PATCH 1/5] fanotify: Fix races when adding/removing marks
[PATCH 2/5] fanotify: Put duplicate code for adding vfsmount/inode
[PATCH 3/5] dnotify: replace dnotify_mark_mutex with mark mutex of
[PATCH 4/5] inotify: fix race when adding a new watch
[PATCH 5/5] fsnotify: update comments concerning locking scheme
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