From: Jan Kara Send inotify events to the inode itself when its link count has changed. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Morten Welinder Cc: Robert Love Cc: John McCutchan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/namei.c | 3 ++- include/linux/fsnotify.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/namei.c~inotify-send-in_attrib-events-when-link-count-changes fs/namei.c --- a/fs/namei.c~inotify-send-in_attrib-events-when-link-count-changes +++ a/fs/namei.c @@ -2189,6 +2189,7 @@ int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct /* We don't d_delete() NFS sillyrenamed files--they still exist. */ if (!error && !(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) { + fsnotify_link_count(dentry->d_inode); d_delete(dentry); } @@ -2361,7 +2362,7 @@ int vfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, error = dir->i_op->link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry); mutex_unlock(&old_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); if (!error) - fsnotify_create(dir, new_dentry); + fsnotify_link(dir, new_dentry); return error; } diff -puN include/linux/fsnotify.h~inotify-send-in_attrib-events-when-link-count-changes include/linux/fsnotify.h --- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h~inotify-send-in_attrib-events-when-link-count-changes +++ a/include/linux/fsnotify.h @@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ static inline void fsnotify_inoderemove( } /* + * fsnotify_link_count - inode's link count changed + */ +static inline void fsnotify_link_count(struct inode *inode) +{ + inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, IN_ATTRIB, 0, NULL, NULL); +} + +/* * fsnotify_create - 'name' was linked in */ static inline void fsnotify_create(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry) @@ -103,6 +111,18 @@ static inline void fsnotify_create(struc } /* + * fsnotify_link - new hardlink in 'inode' directory + */ +static inline void fsnotify_link(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *new_dentry) +{ + inode_dir_notify(inode, DN_CREATE); + inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, IN_CREATE, 0, new_dentry->d_name.name, + new_dentry->d_inode); + fsnotify_link_count(new_dentry->d_inode); + audit_inode_child(new_dentry->d_name.name, new_dentry, inode); +} + +/* * fsnotify_mkdir - directory 'name' was created */ static inline void fsnotify_mkdir(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry) _