From bdae997f44535ac4ebe1e055ffe59eeee946f453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:56:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fs/notify/inotify: decrement user inotify count on close

The per-user inotify_devs value is incremented each time a new file is
allocated, but never decremented. This led to inotify_init failing after a
limited number of calls.

Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
---
 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index ff231ad23895..ff27a2965844 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -296,12 +296,15 @@ static int inotify_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int on)
 static int inotify_release(struct inode *ignored, struct file *file)
 {
 	struct fsnotify_group *group = file->private_data;
+	struct user_struct *user = group->inotify_data.user;
 
 	fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group(group);
 
 	/* free this group, matching get was inotify_init->fsnotify_obtain_group */
 	fsnotify_put_group(group);
 
+	atomic_dec(&user->inotify_devs);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
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