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-rw-r--r--fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index 50b3abc06215..754e27ead874 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ static bool fanotify_should_merge(struct fanotify_event *old,
return false;
}
+/* Limit event merges to limit CPU overhead per event */
+#define FANOTIFY_MAX_MERGE_EVENTS 128
+
/* and the list better be locked by something too! */
static int fanotify_merge(struct fsnotify_group *group,
struct fsnotify_event *event)
@@ -155,6 +158,7 @@ static int fanotify_merge(struct fsnotify_group *group,
struct fanotify_event *old, *new = FANOTIFY_E(event);
unsigned int bucket = fanotify_event_hash_bucket(group, new);
struct hlist_head *hlist = &group->fanotify_data.merge_hash[bucket];
+ int i = 0;
pr_debug("%s: group=%p event=%p bucket=%u\n", __func__,
group, event, bucket);
@@ -168,6 +172,8 @@ static int fanotify_merge(struct fsnotify_group *group,
return 0;
hlist_for_each_entry(old, hlist, merge_list) {
+ if (++i > FANOTIFY_MAX_MERGE_EVENTS)
+ break;
if (fanotify_should_merge(old, new)) {
old->mask |= new->mask;
return 1;