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-rw-r--r--fs/notify/notification.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/notification.c b/fs/notify/notification.c
index b8bf53b4c108..8481253d64b5 100644
--- a/fs/notify/notification.c
+++ b/fs/notify/notification.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *fsnotify_event_holder_cachep;
* it is needed. It's refcnt is set 1 at kernel init time and will never
* get set to 0 so it will never get 'freed'
*/
-static struct fsnotify_event q_overflow_event;
+static struct fsnotify_event *q_overflow_event;
static atomic_t fsnotify_sync_cookie = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
/**
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ alloc_holder:
mutex_lock(&group->notification_mutex);
if (group->q_len >= group->max_events) {
- event = &q_overflow_event;
+ event = q_overflow_event;
ret = -EOVERFLOW;
/* sorry, no private data on the overflow event */
priv = NULL;
@@ -412,8 +412,11 @@ __init int fsnotify_notification_init(void)
fsnotify_event_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(fsnotify_event, SLAB_PANIC);
fsnotify_event_holder_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(fsnotify_event_holder, SLAB_PANIC);
- initialize_event(&q_overflow_event);
- q_overflow_event.mask = FS_Q_OVERFLOW;
+ q_overflow_event = fsnotify_create_event(NULL, FS_Q_OVERFLOW, NULL,
+ FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE, NULL, 0,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!q_overflow_event)
+ panic("unable to allocate fsnotify q_overflow_event\n");
return 0;
}