Merge release-20200522.0-57-g050d8e6e (automated)

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/splice.go b/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/splice.go
index 8f3c22a02..945a364a7 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/splice.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/splice.go
@@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ func Splice(t *kernel.Task, args arch.SyscallArguments) (uintptr, *kernel.Syscal
 	if n == 0 {
 		return 0, nil, err
 	}
+
+	// On Linux, inotify behavior is not very consistent with splice(2). We try
+	// our best to emulate Linux for very basic calls to splice, where for some
+	// reason, events are generated for output files, but not input files.
+	outFile.Dentry().InotifyWithParent(linux.IN_MODIFY, 0, vfs.PathEvent)
 	return uintptr(n), nil, nil
 }