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inotify: remove broken mask checks causing unmount to be EINVAL
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Running the command:

	inotifywait -e unmount /mnt/disk

immediately aborts with a -EINVAL return code.  This is however a valid
parameter.  This abort occurs only if unmount is the sole event
parameter.  If other event parameters are supplied, then the unmount
event wait will work.

The problem was introduced by commit 44b350f ("inotify: Fix mask
checks").  In that commit, it states:

	The mask checks in inotify_update_existing_watch() and
	inotify_new_watch() are useless because inotify_arg_to_mask()
	sets FS_IN_IGNORED and FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD bits anyway.

But instead of removing the useless checks, it did this:

	        mask = inotify_arg_to_mask(arg);
	-       if (unlikely(!mask))
	+       if (unlikely(!(mask & IN_ALL_EVENTS)))
	                return -EINVAL;

The problem is that IN_ALL_EVENTS doesn't include IN_UNMOUNT, and other
parts of the code keep IN_UNMOUNT separate from IN_ALL_EVENTS.  So the
check should be:

	if (unlikely(!(mask & (IN_ALL_EVENTS | IN_UNMOUNT))))

But inotify_arg_to_mask(arg) always sets the IN_UNMOUNT bit in the mask
anyway, so the check is always going to pass and thus should simply be
removed.  Also note that inotify_arg_to_mask completely controls what
mask bits get set from arg, there's no way for invalid bits to get
enabled there.

Lets fix it by simply removing the useless broken checks.

Signed-off-by: Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>		[2.6.37+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jim Somerville authored and Linus Torvalds committed Feb 22, 2013
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4 changes: 0 additions & 4 deletions fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
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Expand Up @@ -576,8 +576,6 @@ static int inotify_update_existing_watch(struct fsnotify_group *group,

/* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */
mask = inotify_arg_to_mask(arg);
if (unlikely(!(mask & IN_ALL_EVENTS)))
return -EINVAL;

fsn_mark = fsnotify_find_inode_mark(group, inode);
if (!fsn_mark)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -629,8 +627,6 @@ static int inotify_new_watch(struct fsnotify_group *group,

/* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */
mask = inotify_arg_to_mask(arg);
if (unlikely(!(mask & IN_ALL_EVENTS)))
return -EINVAL;

tmp_i_mark = kmem_cache_alloc(inotify_inode_mark_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!tmp_i_mark))
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