The branch stable/14 has been updated by markj: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=e8c54222acdbb977c4164667627b6ee569d2eb90
commit e8c54222acdbb977c4164667627b6ee569d2eb90 Author: Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> AuthorDate: 2025-07-10 07:15:13 +0000 Commit: Mark Johnston <[email protected]> CommitDate: 2026-08-05 15:15:16 +0000 inotify: do not call into namei() with a locked vnode PR: 288127 Reviewed by: markj Fixes: f1f230439fa48581f40a57f095627f667a9713c3 Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51233 (cherry picked from commit 63389aea24f15fe823c775960d77017f1a35f54b) --- sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c b/sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c index 8c9e7599b888..46971c78440c 100644 --- a/sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c +++ b/sys/kern/vfs_inotify.c @@ -757,9 +757,11 @@ vn_inotify_add_watch(struct vnode *vp, struct inotify_softc *sc, uint32_t mask, * directory if it's specified as a vnode. */ vrefact(vp); + VOP_UNLOCK(vp); NDINIT_ATVP(&nd, LOOKUP, NOFOLLOW, UIO_SYSSPACE, dp->d_name, vp); error = namei(&nd); + vn_lock(vp, LK_SHARED | LK_RETRY); if (error != 0) break; vn_irflag_set_cond(nd.ni_vp, VIRF_INOTIFY_PARENT);
