[Precise][SRU][Pull-Request] bug #1101666: revert fsnotify patchset

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Jan 23 21:32:58 UTC 2013


== Precise SRU Justification ==

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1101666

This pull request reverts all the fsnotify patches that have been added
into the kernel in the last release due to a regression.  A fix has
already been identified and is currently being tested, but it's not yet
ready for release.

== Fix ==

The following changes since commit 4d47c361f449b82c2d7760949f076c778ee70fbe:

  UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.2.0-36.57 (2013-01-08 18:48:42 +0000)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://kernel.ubuntu.com/henrix/ubuntu-precise fsnotify

for you to fetch changes up to 3e909ea1d927c0950035f333c7070a1495ac3b2e:

  Revert "fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group()" (2013-01-23 21:07:10 +0000)

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Luis Henriques (9):
      Revert "fsnotify: change locking order"
      Revert "fsnotify: dont put marks on temporary list when clearing marks by group"
      Revert "fsnotify: introduce locked versions of fsnotify_add_mark() and fsnotify_remove_mark()"
      Revert "fsnotify: pass group to fsnotify_destroy_mark()"
      Revert "fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list"
      Revert "fanotify: add an extra flag to mark_remove_from_mask that indicates wheather a mark should be destroyed"
      Revert "fsnotify: take groups mark_lock before mark lock"
      Revert "fsnotify: use reference counting for groups"
      Revert "fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group()"

 fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c          |  4 +-
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c   | 19 ++------
 fs/notify/group.c                    | 38 +++++++--------
 fs/notify/inode_mark.c               | 14 ++----
 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c |  4 +-
 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c     |  3 +-
 fs/notify/mark.c                     | 91 ++++++++++++++++--------------------
 fs/notify/vfsmount_mark.c            | 14 ++----
 include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h     | 23 ++++-----
 kernel/audit_tree.c                  | 14 +++---
 kernel/audit_watch.c                 |  4 +-
 11 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)




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