This is a really really trivial first iteration, but I think it's enough to try out CIFS notification support. Doesn't deal with mark deletion, but that's best effort anyway: fsnotify() will filter out unneeded events. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 6 +++++- fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 2 ++ include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c @@ -1041,9 +1041,13 @@ static int do_fanotify_mark(int fanotify else if (mark_type == FAN_MARK_FILESYSTEM) ret = fanotify_add_sb_mark(group, mnt->mnt_sb, mask, flags, fsid); - else + else { ret = fanotify_add_inode_mark(group, inode, mask, flags, fsid); + + if (!ret && inode->i_op->notify_update) + inode->i_op->notify_update(inode); + } break; case FAN_MARK_REMOVE: if (mark_type == FAN_MARK_MOUNT) --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -754,6 +754,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(inotify_add_watch, int, /* create/update an inode mark */ ret = inotify_update_watch(group, inode, mask); + if (!ret && inode->i_op->notify_update) + inode->i_op->notify_update(inode); path_put(&path); fput_and_out: fdput(f); --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1852,6 +1852,7 @@ struct inode_operations { umode_t create_mode); int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t); int (*set_acl)(struct inode *, struct posix_acl *, int); + void (*notify_update)(struct inode *inode); } ____cacheline_aligned; static inline ssize_t call_read_iter(struct file *file, struct kiocb *kio,