From ecf6f5e7d68471b08603f7c20143ac236602364f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 18:08:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fanotify: deny permissions when no event was sent

If no event was sent to userspace we cannot expect userspace to respond to
permissions requests.  Today such requests just hang forever. This patch will
deny any permissions event which was unable to be sent to userspace.

Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
---
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 063224812b7e..045c0794d435 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static int create_fd(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_event *event)
 	return client_fd;
 }
 
-static ssize_t fill_event_metadata(struct fsnotify_group *group,
+static int fill_event_metadata(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 				   struct fanotify_event_metadata *metadata,
 				   struct fsnotify_event *event)
 {
@@ -257,10 +257,11 @@ static ssize_t copy_event_to_user(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 
 	pr_debug("%s: group=%p event=%p\n", __func__, group, event);
 
-	fd = fill_event_metadata(group, &fanotify_event_metadata, event);
-	if (fd < 0)
-		return fd;
+	ret = fill_event_metadata(group, &fanotify_event_metadata, event);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto out;
 
+	fd = ret;
 	ret = prepare_for_access_response(group, event, fd);
 	if (ret)
 		goto out_close_fd;
@@ -275,6 +276,13 @@ static ssize_t copy_event_to_user(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 	remove_access_response(group, event, fd);
 out_close_fd:
 	sys_close(fd);
+out:
+#ifdef CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS
+	if (event->mask & FAN_ALL_PERM_EVENTS) {
+		event->response = FAN_DENY;
+		wake_up(&group->fanotify_data.access_waitq);
+	}
+#endif
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
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