This reverts commit a2673b6e04.
Kinglong Mee reports a memory leak with that patch, and Jan Kara confirms:
"Thanks for report! You are right that my patch introduces a race
between fsnotify kthread and fsnotify_destroy_group() which can result
in leaking inotify event on group destruction.
I haven't yet decided whether the right fix is not to queue events for
dying notification group (as that is pointless anyway) or whether we
should just fix the original problem differently... Whenever I look
at fsnotify code mark handling I get lost in the maze of locks, lists,
and subtle differences between how different notification systems
handle notification marks :( I'll think about it over night"
and after thinking about it, Jan says:
"OK, I have looked into the code some more and I found another
relatively simple way of fixing the original oops. It will be IMHO
better than trying to fixup this issue which has more potential for
breakage. I'll ask Linus to revert the fsnotify fix he already merged
and send a new fix"
Reported-by: Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@gmail.com>
Requested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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