[PATCH] inotify: fix file deletion by rename detection

When a file is moved over an existing file that you are watching,
inotify won't send you a DELETE_SELF event and it won't unref the inode
until the inotify instance is closed by the application.

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 02a824c..4a27eb7 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2218,7 +2218,7 @@ int vfs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 		error = vfs_rename_other(old_dir,old_dentry,new_dir,new_dentry);
 	if (!error) {
 		const char *new_name = old_dentry->d_name.name;
-		fsnotify_move(old_dir, new_dir, old_name, new_name, is_dir);
+		fsnotify_move(old_dir, new_dir, old_name, new_name, is_dir, new_dentry->d_inode);
 	}
 	fsnotify_oldname_free(old_name);