Add a manual page to document the fsopen() and fsmount() system calls. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/fsmount.2 | 1 man2/fsopen.2 | 245 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 246 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man2/fsmount.2 create mode 100644 man2/fsopen.2 diff --git a/man2/fsmount.2 b/man2/fsmount.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2bf59fc3e --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/fsmount.2 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +.so man2/fsopen.2 diff --git a/man2/fsopen.2 b/man2/fsopen.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d1bba238 --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/fsopen.2 @@ -0,0 +1,245 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) 2020 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> +.\" +.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM) +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. 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The file descriptor can be marked close-on-exec by +setting +.B FSOPEN_CLOEXEC +in +.IR flags . +.PP +After calling fsopen(), the file descriptor should be passed to the +.BR fsconfig (2) +system call, using that to specify the desired filesystem and security +parameters. +.PP +When the parameters are all set, the +.BR fsconfig () +system call should then be called again with +.B FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE +as the command argument to effect the creation. +.RS +.PP +.BR "[!]\ NOTE" : +Depending on the filesystem type and parameters, this may rather share an +existing in-kernel filesystem representation instead of creating a new one. +In such a case, the parameters specified may be discarded or may overwrite the +parameters set by a previous mount - at the filesystem's discretion. +.RE +.PP +The file descriptor also serves as a channel by which more comprehensive error, +warning and information messages may be retrieved from the kernel using +.BR read (2). +.PP +Once the creation command has been successfully run on a context, the context +will not accept further configuration. At +this point, +.BR fsmount () +should be called to create a mount object. +.PP +.BR fsmount () +takes the file descriptor returned by +.BR fsopen () +and creates a mount object for the filesystem root specified there. The +attributes of the mount object are set from the +.I mount_attrs +parameter. The attributes specify the propagation and mount restrictions to +be applied to accesses through this mount. +.PP +The mount object is then attached to a new file descriptor that looks like one +created by +.BR open "(2) with " O_PATH " or " open_tree (2). +This can be passed to +.BR move_mount (2) +to attach the mount object to a mountpoint, thereby completing the process. +.PP +The file descriptor returned by fsmount() is marked close-on-exec if +FSMOUNT_CLOEXEC is specified in +.IR flags . +.PP +After fsmount() has completed, the context created by fsopen() is reset and +moved to reconfiguration state, allowing the new superblock to be +reconfigured. See +.BR fspick (2) +for details. +.PP +To use either of these calls, the caller requires the appropriate privilege +(Linux: the +.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN +capability). +.PP +.SS Message Retrieval Interface +The context file descriptor may be queried for message strings at any time by +calling +.BR read (2) +on the file descriptor. This will return formatted messages that are prefixed +to indicate their class: +.TP +\fB"e <message>"\fP +An error message string was logged. +.TP +\fB"i <message>"\fP +An informational message string was logged. +.TP +\fB"w <message>"\fP +An warning message string was logged. +.PP +Messages are removed from the queue as they're read. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, both functions return a file descriptor. On error, \-1 is +returned, and +.I errno +is set appropriately. +.SH ERRORS +The error values given below result from filesystem type independent +errors. +Each filesystem type may have its own special errors and its +own special behavior. +See the Linux kernel source code for details. +.TP +.B EBUSY +The context referred to by +.I fd +is not in the right state to be used by +.BR fsmount (). +.TP +.B EFAULT +One of the pointer arguments points outside the user address space. +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I flags +had an invalid flag set. +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I mount_attrs, +includes invalid +.BR MOUNT_ATTR_* +flags. +.TP +.B EMFILE +The system has too many open files to create more. +.TP +.B ENFILE +The process has too many open files to create more. +.TP +.B ENODEV +The filesystem +.I fsname +is not available in the kernel. +.TP +.B ENOMEM +The kernel could not allocate sufficient memory to complete the call. +.TP +.B EPERM +The caller does not have the required privileges. +.SH CONFORMING TO +These functions are Linux-specific and should not be used in programs intended +to be portable. +.SH VERSIONS +.BR fsopen "(), and " fsmount () +were added to Linux in kernel 5.2. +.SH NOTES +Glibc does not (yet) provide a wrapper for the +.BR fsopen "() or " fsmount "()" +system calls; call them using +.BR syscall (2). +.SH EXAMPLES +To illustrate the process, here's an example whereby this can be used to mount +an ext4 filesystem on /dev/sdb1 onto /mnt. +.PP +.in +4n +.nf +sfd = fsopen("ext4", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "ro", NULL, 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "source", "/dev/sdb1", 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "noatime", NULL, 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "acl", NULL, 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "user_attr", NULL, 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "iversion", NULL, 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 0); +mfd = fsmount(sfd, FSMOUNT_CLOEXEC, MS_RELATIME); +move_mount(mfd, "", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH); +.fi +.in +.PP +Here, an ext4 context is created first and attached to sfd. The context is +then told where its source will be, given a bunch of options and a superblock +record object is then created. Then fsmount() is called to create a mount +object and +.BR move_mount (2) +is called to attach it to its intended mountpoint. +.PP +And here's an example of mounting from an NFS server and setting a Smack +security module label on it too: +.PP +.in +4n +.nf +sfd = fsopen("nfs", 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "source", "example.com:/pub", 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "nfsvers", "3", 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "rsize", "65536", 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "wsize", "65536", 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "smackfsdef", "foolabel", 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "rdma", NULL, 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 0); +mfd = fsmount(sfd, 0, MS_NODEV); +move_mount(mfd, "", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH); +.fi +.in +.PP +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR mountpoint (1), +.BR fsconfig (2), +.BR fspick (2), +.BR move_mount (2), +.BR open_tree (2), +.BR umount (2), +.BR mount_namespaces (7), +.BR path_resolution (7), +.BR mount (8), +.BR umount (8)