Re: [PATCH] fs/notify/inotify: decrement user inotify count on close

[Alex Riesen]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 17:46, Alex Riesen<raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 14:14, Eric Paris<eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 21:56 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
>>> The per-user inotify_devs value is incremented each time a new file is
>>> allocated, but never decremented. This led to inotify_init failing after a
>>> limited number of calls.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Thanks, I will push to Linus later today, sorry about the regression!
>>
>
> Hmm... Either the patch wasn't enough, or it was broken again.

The bug seem to be known since 2.6.28:

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12754
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