fsnotify: remove group_num altogether

The original fsnotify interface has a group-num which was intended to be
able to find a group after it was added.  I no longer think this is a
necessary thing to do and so we remove the group_num.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index cbe16df..cae317f 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -51,12 +51,6 @@ int inotify_max_user_watches __read_mostly;
 static struct kmem_cache *inotify_inode_mark_cachep __read_mostly;
 struct kmem_cache *event_priv_cachep __read_mostly;
 
-/*
- * When inotify registers a new group it increments this and uses that
- * value as an offset to set the fsnotify group "name" and priority.
- */
-static atomic_t inotify_grp_num;
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
 
 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
@@ -700,11 +694,8 @@ retry:
 static struct fsnotify_group *inotify_new_group(struct user_struct *user, unsigned int max_events)
 {
 	struct fsnotify_group *group;
-	unsigned int grp_num;
 
-	/* fsnotify_obtain_group took a reference to group, we put this when we kill the file in the end */
-	grp_num = (INOTIFY_GROUP_NUM - atomic_inc_return(&inotify_grp_num));
-	group = fsnotify_obtain_group(grp_num, 0, &inotify_fsnotify_ops);
+	group = fsnotify_obtain_group(0, &inotify_fsnotify_ops);
 	if (IS_ERR(group))
 		return group;