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Commit 0a8dd2db authored by Heinrich Schuchardt's avatar Heinrich Schuchardt Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fanotify: FAN_MARK_FLUSH: avoid having to provide a fake/invalid fd and path

Originally from Tvrtko Ursulin (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/12/112

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Avoid having to provide a fake/invalid fd and path when flushing marks

Currently for a group to flush marks it has set it needs to provide a
fake or invalid (but resolvable) file descriptor and path when calling
fanotify_mark.  This patch pulls the flush handling a bit up so file
descriptor and path are completely ignored when flushing.

I reworked the patch to be applicable again (the signature of
fanotify_mark has changed since Tvrtko's work).

Signed-off-by: default avatarHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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