[PATCH] fanotify: stop permission watchdog when timeout is zero

Yichong Chen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The fanotify permission watchdog can be disabled by writing zero to
fs/fanotify/watchdog_timeout.  fanotify_perm_watchdog_group_add() already
checks for a zero timeout before scheduling the watchdog.

However, once the watchdog work has been scheduled, perm_group_watchdog()
unconditionally schedules itself again with the current timeout.  If the
sysctl is changed to zero while the work is active, secs_to_jiffies(0)
causes the work to be rescheduled immediately, resulting in a kworker
busy loop.

Read the timeout once in perm_group_watchdog_schedule() and do not
schedule the work when it is zero.  This lets a running watchdog stop
after the next execution when the sysctl is set to zero.

Fixes: b8cf8fda522d ("fanotify: add watchdog for permission events")
Signed-off-by: Yichong Chen <[email protected]>
---
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index b604e3da58ad..9ee373ff5840 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -112,7 +112,12 @@ static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(perm_group_work, perm_group_watchdog);
 
 static void perm_group_watchdog_schedule(void)
 {
-	schedule_delayed_work(&perm_group_work, secs_to_jiffies(perm_group_timeout));
+	int timeout = READ_ONCE(perm_group_timeout);
+
+	if (!timeout)
+		return;
+
+	schedule_delayed_work(&perm_group_work, secs_to_jiffies(timeout));
 }
 
 static void perm_group_watchdog(struct work_struct *work)
-- 
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