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-rw-r--r--fs/notify/notification.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/notification.c b/fs/notify/notification.c
index 959b73e756fd..69391fe8efb1 100644
--- a/fs/notify/notification.c
+++ b/fs/notify/notification.c
@@ -136,10 +136,15 @@ static bool event_compare(struct fsnotify_event *old, struct fsnotify_event *new
{
if ((old->mask == new->mask) &&
(old->to_tell == new->to_tell) &&
- (old->data_type == new->data_type)) {
+ (old->data_type == new->data_type) &&
+ (old->name_len == new->name_len)) {
switch (old->data_type) {
case (FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE):
- if (old->inode == new->inode)
+ /* remember, after old was put on the wait_q we aren't
+ * allowed to look at the inode any more, only thing
+ * left to check was if the file_name is the same */
+ if (old->name_len &&
+ !strcmp(old->file_name, new->file_name))
return true;
break;
case (FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH):