[PATCH v3 0/7] fanotify events on child with name info

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Jan,

In the v3 posting of the name info patches [1] I dropped the
FAN_REPORT_NAME patches as agreed to defer them to next cycle.

Following is remainder of the series to complement the FAN_DIR_MODIFY
patches that were merged to v5.7-rc1.

The v3 patches are available on my github branch fanotify_name [2].
Same branch names for LTP tests [3], man page draft [4] and a demo [5].

Patches 1-4 are cleanup and minor re-factoring in prep for the name
info patches.

Patch 5 adds the FAN_REPORT_NAME flag and the new event reporting format
combined of FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID_NAME and FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_FID
info records, but provides not much added value beyond inotify.

Patches 6-7 add the new capability of filesystem/mount watch with events
including name info.

I have made an API decision that stems from consolidating the
implementation with fsnotify_parent() that requires your approval -
A filesystem/mount mark with FAN_REPORT_NAME behaves as if all the
directories and inodes are marked.  This results in user getting all
relevant events in two flavors - one with both info records and one with just
FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_FID.  I have tries several approaches to work around this
bizarrity, but in the end I decided that would be the lesser evil and that
bizarre behavior is at least easy to document.

Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Amir.

Main changes since v2:
- FAN_DIR_MODIFY patches have been merged
- A few more clean patches
- More text about the motivation (in "report parent fid + name" patch)
- Reduce code duplication with fsnotify_parent()

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200319151022.31456-1-amir73il@xxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/fanotify_name
[3] https://github.com/amir73il/ltp/commits/fanotify_name
[4] https://github.com/amir73il/man-pages/commits/fanotify_name
[5] https://github.com/amir73il/inotify-tools/commits/fanotify_name

Amir Goldstein (7):
  fanotify: create overflow event type
  fanotify: break up fanotify_alloc_event()
  fanotify: generalize the handling of extra event flags
  fanotify: distinguish between fid encode error and null fid
  fanotify: report parent fid + name for events on children
  fsnotify: send event "on child" to sb/mount marks
  fanotify: report events "on child" with name info to sb/mount marks

 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c      | 213 +++++++++++++++++------------
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h      |  18 ++-
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c |  46 +++++--
 fs/notify/fsnotify.c               |  38 ++++-
 include/linux/fanotify.h           |   2 +-
 include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h   |  23 +++-
 include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h      |   4 +
 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)

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2.17.1




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