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2019-02-07fanotify: report FAN_ONDIR to listener with FAN_REPORT_FIDAmir Goldstein
dirent modification events (create/delete/move) do not carry the child entry name/inode information. Instead, we report FAN_ONDIR for mkdir/rmdir so user can differentiate them from creat/unlink. This is consistent with inotify reporting IN_ISDIR with dirent events and is useful for implementing recursive directory tree watcher. We avoid merging dirent events referring to subdirs with dirent events referring to non subdirs, otherwise, user won't be able to tell from a mask FAN_CREATE|FAN_DELETE|FAN_ONDIR if it describes mkdir+unlink pair or rmdir+create pair of events. For backward compatibility and consistency, do not report FAN_ONDIR to user in legacy fanotify mode (reporting fd) and report FAN_ONDIR to user in FAN_REPORT_FID mode for all event types. Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2019-02-07fanotify: add support for create/attrib/move/delete eventsAmir Goldstein
Add support for events with data type FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE (e.g. create/attrib/move/delete) for inode and filesystem mark types. The "inode" events do not carry enough information (i.e. path) to report event->fd, so we do not allow setting a mask for those events unless group supports reporting fid. The "inode" events are not supported on a mount mark, because they do not carry enough information (i.e. path) to be filtered by mount point. The "dirent" events (create/move/delete) report the fid of the parent directory where events took place without specifying the filename of the child. In the future, fanotify may get support for reporting filename information for those events. Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2019-02-07fanotify: enable FAN_REPORT_FID init flagAmir Goldstein
When setting up an fanotify listener, user may request to get fid information in event instead of an open file descriptor. The fid obtained with event on a watched object contains the file handle returned by name_to_handle_at(2) and fsid returned by statfs(2). Restrict FAN_REPORT_FID to class FAN_CLASS_NOTIF, because we have have no good reason to support reporting fid on permission events. When setting a mark, we need to make sure that the filesystem supports encoding file handles with name_to_handle_at(2) and that statfs(2) encodes a non-zero fsid. Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-11-13fanotify: introduce new event mask FAN_OPEN_EXEC_PERMMatthew Bobrowski
A new event mask FAN_OPEN_EXEC_PERM has been defined. This allows users to receive events and grant access to files that are intending to be opened for execution. Events of FAN_OPEN_EXEC_PERM type will be generated when a file has been opened by using either execve(), execveat() or uselib() system calls. This acts in the same manner as previous permission event mask, meaning that an access response is required from the user application in order to permit any further operations on the file. Signed-off-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-11-13fanotify: introduce new event mask FAN_OPEN_EXECMatthew Bobrowski
A new event mask FAN_OPEN_EXEC has been defined so that users have the ability to receive events specifically when a file has been opened with the intent to be executed. Events of FAN_OPEN_EXEC type will be generated when a file has been opened using either execve(), execveat() or uselib() system calls. The feature is implemented within fsnotify_open() by generating the FAN_OPEN_EXEC event type if __FMODE_EXEC is set within file->f_flags. Signed-off-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-08fanotify: support reporting thread id instead of process idAmir Goldstein
In order to identify which thread triggered the event in a multi-threaded program, add the FAN_REPORT_TID flag in fanotify_init to opt-in for reporting the event creator's thread id information. Signed-off-by: nixiaoming <nixiaoming@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-04fanotify: add BUILD_BUG_ON() to count the bits of fanotify constantsAmir Goldstein
Also define the FANOTIFY_EVENT_FLAGS consisting of the extra flags FAN_ONDIR and FAN_ON_CHILD. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-04fanotify: deprecate uapi FAN_ALL_* constantsAmir Goldstein
We do not want to add new bits to the FAN_ALL_* uapi constants because they have been exposed to userspace. If there are programs out there using these constants, those programs could break if re-compiled with modified FAN_ALL_* constants and run on an old kernel. We deprecate the uapi constants FAN_ALL_* and define new FANOTIFY_* constants for internal use to replace them. New feature bits will be added only to the new constants. Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-04fanotify: simplify handling of FAN_ONDIRAmir Goldstein
fanotify mark add/remove code jumps through hoops to avoid setting the FS_ISDIR in the commulative object mask. That was just papering over a bug in fsnotify() handling of the FS_ISDIR extra flag. This bug is now fixed, so all the hoops can be removed along with the unneeded internal flag FAN_MARK_ONDIR. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-04fanotify: fix collision of internal and uapi mark flagsAmir Goldstein
The new mark flag FAN_MARK_FILESYSTEMS collides with existing internal flag FAN_MARK_ONDIR. Change internal flag value to avoid the collision. Fixes: d54f4fba889b ("fanotify: add API to attach/detach super block mark") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-09-27fanotify: store fanotify_init() flags in group's fanotify_dataAmir Goldstein
This averts the need to re-generate flags in fanotify_show_fdinfo() and sets the scene for addition of more upcoming flags without growing new members to the fanotify_data struct. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-12-15fanotify: split version into version and metadata_lenAlexey Zaytsev
To implement per event type optional headers we are interested in knowing how long the metadata structure is. This patch slits the __u32 version field into a __u8 version and a __u16 metadata_len field (with __u8 left over). This should allow for backwards compat ABI. Signed-off-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> [rewrote descrtion and changed object sizes and ordering - eparis] Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-12-07fanotify: Introduce FAN_NOFDLino Sanfilippo
FAN_NOFD is used in fanotify events that do not provide an open file descriptor (like the overflow_event). Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-12-07fanotify: remove packed from access response messageEric Paris
Since fanotify has decided to be careful about alignment and packing rather than rely on __attribute__((packed)) for multiarch support. Since this attribute isn't doing anything on fanotify_response we just drop it. This does not break API/ABI. Suggested-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28fanotify: Fix FAN_CLOSE commentsStefan Hajnoczi
The comments for FAN_CLOSE_WRITE and FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE do not match FS_CLOSE_WRITE and FS_CLOSE_NOWRITE, respectively. WRITE is for writable files while NOWRITE is for non-writable files. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28fanotify: ignore events on directories unless specifically requestedEric Paris
fanotify has a very limited number of events it sends on directories. The usefulness of these events is yet to be seen and still we send them. This is particularly painful for mount marks where one might receive many of these useless events. As such this patch will drop events on IS_DIR() inodes unless they were explictly requested with FAN_ON_DIR. This means that a mark on a directory without FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD or FAN_ON_DIR is meaningless and will result in no events ever (although it will still be allowed since detecting it is hard) Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28fanotify: allow userspace to override max marksEric Paris
Some fanotify groups, especially those like AV scanners, will need to place lots of marks, particularly ignore marks. Since ignore marks do not pin inodes in cache and are cleared if the inode is removed from core (usually under memory pressure) we expose an interface for listeners, with CAP_SYS_ADMIN, to override the maximum number of marks and be allowed to set and 'unlimited' number of marks. Programs which make use of this feature will be able to OOM a machine. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28fanotify: allow userspace to override max queue depthEric Paris
fanotify has a defualt max queue depth. This patch allows processes which explicitly request it to have an 'unlimited' queue depth. These processes need to be very careful to make sure they cannot fall far enough behind that they OOM the box. Thus this flag is gated on CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28fsnotify: implement a default maximum queue depthEric Paris
Currently fanotify has no maximum queue depth. Since fanotify is CAP_SYS_ADMIN only this does not pose a normal user DoS issue, but it certianly is possible that an fanotify listener which can't keep up could OOM the box. This patch implements a default 16k depth. This is the same default depth used by inotify, but given fanotify's better queue merging in many situations this queue will contain many additional useful events by comparison. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28fanotify: allow userspace to flush all marksEric Paris
fanotify is supposed to be able to flush all marks. This is mostly useful for the AV community to flush all cached decisions on a security policy change. This functionality has existed in the kernel but wasn't correctly exposed to userspace. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28fanotify: use __aligned_u64 in fanotify userspace metadataEric Paris
Currently the userspace struct exposed by fanotify uses __attribute__((packed)) to make sure that alignment works on multiarch platforms. Since this causes a severe performance penalty on some platforms we are going to switch to using explicit alignment notation on the 64bit values so we don't have to use 'packed' Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28fanotify: implement fanotify listener orderingEric Paris
The fanotify listeners needs to be able to specify what types of operations they are going to perform so they can be ordered appropriately between other listeners doing other types of operations. They need this to be able to make sure that things like hierarchichal storage managers will get access to inodes before processes which need the data. This patch defines 3 possible uses which groups must indicate in the fanotify_init() flags. FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT FAN_CLASS_CONTENT FAN_CLASS_NOTIF Groups will receive notification in that order. The order between 2 groups in the same class is undeterministic. FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT is intended to be used by listeners which need access to the inode before they are certain that the inode contains it's final data. A hierarchical storage manager should choose to use this class. FAN_CLASS_CONTENT is intended to be used by listeners which need access to the inode after it contains its intended contents. This would be the appropriate level for an AV solution or document control system. FAN_CLASS_NOTIF is intended for normal async notification about access, much the same as inotify and dnotify. Syncronous permissions events are not permitted at this class. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-27fanotify: resize pid and reorder structureTvrtko Ursulin
resize pid and reorder the fanotify_event_metadata so it is naturally aligned and we can work towards dropping the packed attributed Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-22fanotify: flush outstanding perm requests on group destroyEric Paris
When an fanotify listener is closing it may cause a deadlock between the listener and the original task doing an fs operation. If the original task is waiting for a permissions response it will be holding the srcu lock. The listener cannot clean up and exit until after that srcu lock is syncronized. Thus deadlock. The fix introduced here is to stop accepting new permissions events when a listener is shutting down and to grant permission for all outstanding events. Thus the original task will eventually release the srcu lock and the listener can complete shutdown. Reported-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: userspace interface for permission responsesEric Paris
fanotify groups need to respond to events which include permissions types. To do so groups will send a response using write() on the fanotify_fd they have open. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: permissions and blockingEric Paris
This is the backend work needed for fanotify to support the new FS_OPEN_PERM and FS_ACCESS_PERM fsnotify events. This is done using the new fsnotify secondary queue. No userspace interface is provided actually respond to or request these events. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: clear all fanotify marksEric Paris
fanotify listeners may want to clear all marks. They may want to do this to destroy all of their inode marks which have nothing but ignores. Realistically this is useful for av vendors who update policy and want to clear all of their cached allows. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: allow ignored_masks to survive modifyEric Paris
Some users may want to truely ignore an inode even if it has been modified. Say you are wanting a mount which contains a log file and you really don't want any notification about that file. This patch allows the listener to do that. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: allow users to set an ignored_maskEric Paris
Change the sys_fanotify_mark() system call so users can set ignored_masks on inodes. Remember, if a user new sets a real mask, and only sets ignored masks, the ignore will never be pinned in memory. Thus ignored_masks can be lost under memory pressure and the user may again get events they previously thought were ignored. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: remove fanotify.h declarationsAndreas Gruenbacher
fanotify_mark_validate functions are all needlessly declared in headers as static inlines. Instead just do the checks where they are needed for code readability. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: rename FAN_MARK_ON_VFSMOUNT to FAN_MARK_MOUNTAndreas Gruenbacher
the term 'vfsmount' isn't sensicle to userspace. instead call is 'mount. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: hooks the fanotify_mark syscall to the vfsmount codeEric Paris
Create a new fanotify_mark flag which indicates we should attach the mark to the vfsmount holding the object referenced by dfd and pathname rather than the inode itself. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: Add pids to eventsAndreas Gruenbacher
Pass the process identifiers of the triggering processes to fanotify listeners: this information is useful for event filtering and logging. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: send events using readEric Paris
Send events to userspace by reading the file descriptor from fanotify_init(). One will get blocks of data which look like: struct fanotify_event_metadata { __u32 event_len; __u32 vers; __s32 fd; __u64 mask; __s64 pid; __u64 cookie; } __attribute__ ((packed)); Simple code to retrieve and deal with events is below while ((len = read(fan_fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0) { struct fanotify_event_metadata *metadata; metadata = (void *)buf; while(FAN_EVENT_OK(metadata, len)) { [PROCESS HERE!!] if (metadata->fd >= 0 && close(metadata->fd) != 0) goto fail; metadata = FAN_EVENT_NEXT(metadata, len); } } Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: fanotify_mark syscall implementationEric Paris
NAME fanotify_mark - add, remove, or modify an fanotify mark on a filesystem object SYNOPSIS int fanotify_mark(int fanotify_fd, unsigned int flags, u64 mask, int dfd, const char *pathname) DESCRIPTION fanotify_mark() is used to add remove or modify a mark on a filesystem object. Marks are used to indicate that the fanotify group is interested in events which occur on that object. At this point in time marks may only be added to files and directories. fanotify_fd must be a file descriptor returned by fanotify_init() The flags field must contain exactly one of the following: FAN_MARK_ADD - or the bits in mask and ignored mask into the mark FAN_MARK_REMOVE - bitwise remove the bits in mask and ignored mark from the mark The following values can be OR'd into the flags field: FAN_MARK_DONT_FOLLOW - same meaning as O_NOFOLLOW as described in open(2) FAN_MARK_ONLYDIR - same meaning as O_DIRECTORY as described in open(2) dfd may be any of the following: AT_FDCWD: the object will be lookup up based on pathname similar to open(2) file descriptor of a directory: if pathname is not NULL the object to modify will be lookup up similar to openat(2) file descriptor of the final object: if pathname is NULL the object to modify will be the object referenced by dfd The mask is the bitwise OR of the set of events of interest such as: FAN_ACCESS - object was accessed (read) FAN_MODIFY - object was modified (write) FAN_CLOSE_WRITE - object was writable and was closed FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE - object was read only and was closed FAN_OPEN - object was opened FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD - interested in objected that happen to children. Only relavent when the object is a directory FAN_Q_OVERFLOW - event queue overflowed (not implemented) RETURN VALUE On success, this system call returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS EINVAL An invalid value was specified in flags. EINVAL An invalid value was specified in mask. EINVAL An invalid value was specified in ignored_mask. EINVAL fanotify_fd is not a file descriptor as returned by fanotify_init() EBADF fanotify_fd is not a valid file descriptor EBADF dfd is not a valid file descriptor and path is NULL. ENOTDIR dfd is not a directory and path is not NULL EACCESS no search permissions on some part of the path ENENT file not found ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory is available. CONFORMING TO These system calls are Linux-specific. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: fanotify_init syscall implementationEric Paris
NAME fanotify_init - initialize an fanotify group SYNOPSIS int fanotify_init(unsigned int flags, unsigned int event_f_flags, int priority); DESCRIPTION fanotify_init() initializes a new fanotify instance and returns a file descriptor associated with the new fanotify event queue. The following values can be OR'd into the flags field: FAN_NONBLOCK Set the O_NONBLOCK file status flag on the new open file description. Using this flag saves extra calls to fcntl(2) to achieve the same result. FAN_CLOEXEC Set the close-on-exec (FD_CLOEXEC) flag on the new file descriptor. See the description of the O_CLOEXEC flag in open(2) for reasons why this may be useful. The event_f_flags argument is unused and must be set to 0 The priority argument is unused and must be set to 0 RETURN VALUE On success, this system call return a new file descriptor. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS EINVAL An invalid value was specified in flags. EINVAL A non-zero valid was passed in event_f_flags or in priority ENFILE The system limit on the total number of file descriptors has been reached. ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory is available. CONFORMING TO These system calls are Linux-specific. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fanotify: fscking all notification systemEric Paris
fanotify is a novel file notification system which bases notification on giving userspace both an event type (open, close, read, write) and an open file descriptor to the object in question. This should address a number of races and problems with other notification systems like inotify and dnotify and should allow the future implementation of blocking or access controlled notification. These are useful for on access scanners or hierachical storage management schemes. This patch just implements the basics of the fsnotify functions. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>