[patch] fsnotify: hook on removexattr, too

[Robert Love <rml@novell.com>]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 19:07 +0100, marijn ros wrote:

> I got wondering, why does fs_notify_xattr get called from setxattr in fs/xattr.c, but
> not from removexattr that is below it in the same file? Both seem to make changes to
> xattrs and both are exported as system calls.

We should.

	Robert Love


Add fsnotify_xattr() hook to removexattr().

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>

 fs/xattr.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc5/fs/xattr.c linux/fs/xattr.c
--- linux-2.6.13-rc5/fs/xattr.c	2005-08-05 15:49:17.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/fs/xattr.c	2005-08-05 15:53:45.000000000 -0400
@@ -307,6 +307,8 @@
 		down(&d->d_inode->i_sem);
 		error = d->d_inode->i_op->removexattr(d, kname);
 		up(&d->d_inode->i_sem);
+		if (!error)
+			fsnotify_xattr(d);
 	}
 out:
 	return error;


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