> > The limitations of FAN_MARK_MOUNT as I now understand them are indeed > > unpleasant. If we could get FAN_MARK_MOUNT with the same event support > > as FAN_MARK_INODE that would be great. > > I think the delegation model that makes sense to me is to allow > > FAN_MARK_MOUNT when the caller is ns_capable(mnt->mnt_userns) and of > > course ns_capable() in the userns they called fanotify_init() in. That > > feels ok and supportable. > > I present to you a demo [1][2] of FAN_MARK_MOUNT on idmapped mount that: > > 1. Can subscribe and receive FAN_LINK (new) events > 2. Is capable of open_by_handle() if fid is under mount root > > FAN_LINK (temp name) is an event that I wanted to add anyway [3] and > AFAIK it's the only event that you really need in order to detect when a dir > was created for the use case of injecting a bind mount into a container. Scratch that part about the new event. I found a way to make FAN_CREATE available for FAN_MARK_MOUNT. Will post an RFC patch. Same demo instructions. Different branches [1][2]: > > The kernel branch [1] intentionally excludes the controversial patch that > added support for userns filtered sb marks. > > Therefore, trying to run the demo script as is on an idmapped mount > inside userns will auto-detect UID 0, try to setup an sb mark and fail. > > Instead, the demo script should be run as follows to combine a > mount mark and recursive inode marks: > > ./test_demo.sh <idmapped-mount-path> 1 > > For example: ~# ./test_demo.sh /vdf 1 + WD=/vdf + ID=1 ... + inotifywatch --fanotify --recursive -w --timeout -2 /vdf Establishing watches... ... + mkdir -p a/dir0 a/dir1 a/dir2/A/B/C/ + touch a/dir2/A/B/C/file2 ... [fid=94847cf7.d74a50ab.30000c2;name='dir2'] /mnt/a/dir2 Adding recursive watches on directory '/mnt/a/dir2/'... [fid=94847cf7.d74a50ab.87;name='A'] /mnt/a/dir2/A Adding recursive watches on directory '/mnt/a/dir2/A/'... [fid=94847cf7.d74a50ab.1000087;name='B'] /mnt/a/dir2/A/B Adding recursive watches on directory '/mnt/a/dir2/A/B/'... [fid=94847cf7.d74a50ab.20073e5;name='C'] /mnt/a/dir2/A/B/C Adding recursive watches on directory '/mnt/a/dir2/A/B/C/'... [fid=94847cf7.d74a50ab.30000c9;name='file2'] /mnt/a/dir2/A/B/C/file2 Hope that helps. Thanks, Amir. [1] https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/fanotify_userns [2] https://github.com/amir73il/inotify-tools/commits/fanotify_userns