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The audit group marks mask does not contain any events possible on a child so setting the flag FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD in the mask is counter productive. It may lead to the undesired outcome of setting the dentry flag DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED on a directory inode even though it is not watching children, because the audit mark contribute the flag FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD to the inode's fsnotify_mask and another mark could be contributing an event that is possible on child to the inode's mask. Furthermore in the following patches we want to use FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD for non-dir inodes for other purposes so stop using the flag. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200722125849.17418-4-amir73il@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.