fanotify: stop permission watchdog when timeout is zero

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The fanotify permission watchdog can be disabled by writing zero to
fs/fanotify/watchdog_timeout.  fanotify_perm_watchdog_group_add() already
checks for a zero timeout before scheduling the watchdog.

However, once the watchdog work has been scheduled, perm_group_watchdog()
unconditionally schedules itself again with the current timeout.  If the
sysctl is changed to zero while the work is active, secs_to_jiffies(0)
causes the work to be rescheduled immediately, resulting in a kworker
busy loop.

Read the timeout once in perm_group_watchdog_schedule() and do not
schedule the work when it is zero.  This lets a running watchdog stop
after the next execution when the sysctl is set to zero.

Fixes: b8cf8fda52 ("fanotify: add watchdog for permission events")
Signed-off-by: Yichong Chen <chenyichong@uniontech.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260730070648.549458-1-chenyichong@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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Yichong Chen 2026-07-30 15:06:48 +08:00 • committed by Jan Kara

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