Document fanotify_init(2) flag FAN_REPORT_NAME and the format of the
event info type FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID_NAME.
The fanotify_fid.c example is extended to also report the name of the
created file or sub-directory.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man2/fanotify_init.2 | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
man7/fanotify.7 | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/fanotify_init.2 b/man2/fanotify_init.2
index c58ae4493..a2e2a17fc 100644
--- a/man2/fanotify_init.2
+++ b/man2/fanotify_init.2
@@ -223,6 +223,60 @@ flag, no event will be reported.
See
.BR fanotify (7)
for additional details.
+.TP
+.BR FAN_REPORT_NAME " (since Linux 5.9)"
+Events for fanotify groups initialized with this flag will contain additional
+information about the name of the directory entry correlated to an event.
+This flag must be provided in conjunction with the flag
+.BR FAN_REPORT_DIR_FID .
+Providing this flag value without
+.BR FAN_REPORT_DIR_FID
+will result in the error
+.BR EINVAL .
+This flag may be combined with the flag
+.BR FAN_REPORT_FID .
+An additional record of type
+.BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID_NAME ,
+which encapsulates the information about the directory entry is included
+alongside the generic event metadata structure and substitutes the additional
+information record of type
+.BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID .
+The additional record includes a file handle that identifies a directory
+filesystem object followed by a name that identifies an entry in that
+directory.
+For the directory entry modification events
+.BR FAN_CREATE ,
+.BR FAN_DELETE ,
+and
+.BR FAN_MOVE ,
+the reported name is that of the created/deleted/moved directory entry.
+For other events that occur on a directory object, the reported file handle
+is that of the directory object itself and the reported name is '.'.
+For other events that occur on a non-directory object, the reported file handle
+is that of the parent directory object and the reported name is the name of a
+directory entry where the object was located at the time of the event.
+The rational behind this logic is that the reported directory file handle can
+be passed to
+.BR open_by_handle_at (2)
+to get an open directory file descriptor and that file descriptor along with
+the reported name can be used to call
+.BR fstatat (2).
+The same rule that applies to record type
+.BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID
+also applies to record type
+.BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID_NAME \ -
+if a non-directory object has no parent, either the event will not be reported
+or it will be reported without the directory entry information.
+Note that there is no guarantee that the filesystem object will be found at the
+location described by the directory entry information at the time the event is
+received.
+See
+.BR fanotify (7)
+for additional details.
+.TP
+.B FAN_REPORT_DFID_NAME
+This is a synonym for
+.RB ( FAN_REPORT_DIR_FID | FAN_REPORT_NAME ).
.PP
The
.I event_f_flags
diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index 00fc56368..5046fce02 100644
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -470,6 +470,12 @@ the
.IR file_handle
identifies the modified directory and not the created/deleted/moved child
object.
+If the value of
+.I info_type
+field is
+.BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID_NAME ,
+the file handle is followed by a null terminated string that identifies the
+created/deleted/moved directory entry name.
For other events such as
.BR FAN_OPEN ,
.BR FAN_ATTRIB ,
@@ -490,7 +496,18 @@ field is
the
.IR file_handle
identifies the directory object correlated to the event or the parent directory
-of the non-directory object correlated to the event.
+of a non-directory object correlated to the event.
+If the value of
+.I info_type
+field is
+.BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID_NAME ,
+the
+.IR file_handle
+identifies the same directory object that would be reported with
+.BR FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID
+and the file handle is followed by a null terminated string that identifies the
+name of a directory entry in that directory, or '.' to identify the directory
+object itself.
.PP
The following macros are provided to iterate over a buffer containing
fanotify event metadata returned by a
@@ -675,12 +692,17 @@ events for the monitored directory itself.
Fanotify monitoring of directories is not recursive:
to monitor subdirectories under a directory,
additional marks must be created.
-(But note that the fanotify API provides no way of detecting when a
-subdirectory has been created under a marked directory,
-which makes recursive monitoring difficult.)
-Monitoring mounts offers the capability to monitor a whole directory tree.
+The
+.B FAN_CREATE
+event can be used for detecting when a subdirectory has been created under
+a marked directory.
+An additional mark must then be set on the newly created subdirectory.
+This approach is racy, because it can lose events that occurred inside the
+newly created subdirectory, before a mark is added on that subdirectory.
+Monitoring mounts offers the capability to monitor a whole directory tree
+in a race free manner.
Monitoring filesystems offers the capability to monitor changes made from
-any mount of a filesystem instance.
+any mount of a filesystem instance in a race free manner.
.PP
The event queue can overflow.
In this case, events are lost.
@@ -964,9 +986,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
.EE
.\"
.SS Example program: fanotify_fid.c
-The second program is an example of fanotify being used with
-.B FAN_REPORT_FID
-enabled.
+The second program is an example of fanotify being used with a group that
+identifies objects by file handles.
The program marks the filesystem object that is passed as
a command-line argument
and waits until an event of type
@@ -987,7 +1008,7 @@ This is followed by the creation of a regular file,
This results in a
.B FAN_CREATE
event being generated and reported against the file's parent watched
-directory object.
+directory object and with the created file name.
Program execution ends once all events captured within the buffer have
been processed.
.PP
@@ -997,6 +1018,7 @@ been processed.
Listening for events.
FAN_CREATE (file created):
Directory /home/user has been modified.
+ Entry 'testfile.txt' is not a subdirectory.
All events processed successfully. Program exiting.
$ \fBtouch /home/user/testfile.txt\fP # In another terminal
@@ -1011,7 +1033,7 @@ This specific action results in a
.B FAN_CREATE
event being generated and is reported with the
.B FAN_ONDIR
-flag set.
+flag set and with the created directory name.
.PP
.in +4n
.EX
@@ -1019,6 +1041,7 @@ flag set.
Listening for events.
FAN_CREATE | FAN_ONDIR (subdirectory created):
Directory /home/user has been modified.
+ Entry 'testdir' is a subdirectory.
All events processed successfully. Program exiting.
$ \fBmkdir \-p /home/user/testdir\fP # In another terminal
@@ -1051,6 +1074,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
struct file_handle *file_handle;
struct fanotify_event_metadata *metadata;
struct fanotify_event_info_fid *fid;
+ const char *file_name;
+ struct stat sb;
if (argc != 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "Invalid number of command line arguments.\en");
@@ -1064,10 +1089,10 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
}
- /* Create an fanotify file descriptor with FAN_REPORT_FID as a flag
- so that program can receive fid events. */
+ /* Create an fanotify file descriptor with FAN_REPORT_DFID_NAME as a flag
+ so that program can receive fid events with directory entry name. */
- fd = fanotify_init(FAN_CLASS_NOTIF | FAN_REPORT_FID, 0);
+ fd = fanotify_init(FAN_CLASS_NOTIF | FAN_REPORT_DFID_NAME, 0);
if (fd == \-1) {
perror("fanotify_init");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
@@ -1103,7 +1128,13 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
/* Ensure that the event info is of the correct type */
- if (fid\->hdr.info_type != FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_FID) {
+ if (fid\->hdr.info_type == FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_FID ||
+ fid\->hdr.info_type == FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID) {
+ file_name = NULL;
+ } else if (fid\->hdr.info_type == FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_DFID_NAME) {
+ file_name = file_handle->f_handle +
+ file_handle->handle_bytes;
+ } else {
fprintf(stderr, "Received unexpected event info type.\en");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
@@ -1114,8 +1145,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
if (metadata\->mask == (FAN_CREATE | FAN_ONDIR))
printf("FAN_CREATE | FAN_ONDIR (subdirectory created):\en");
- /* metadata\->fd is set to FAN_NOFD when FAN_REPORT_FID is
- enabled. To obtain a file descriptor for the file object
+ /* metadata\->fd is set to FAN_NOFD when the group identifies objects
+ by file handles. To obtain a file descriptor for the file object
corresponding to an event you can use the struct file_handle
that\(aqs provided within the fanotify_event_info_fid in
conjunction with the open_by_handle_at(2) system call.
@@ -1149,6 +1180,22 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
path[path_len] = \(aq\e0\(aq;
printf("\etDirectory \(aq%s\(aq has been modified.\en", path);
+ if (file_name) {
+ ret = fstatat(event_fd, file_name, &sb, 0);
+ if (ret == \-1) {
+ if (errno != ENOENT) {
+ perror("fstatat");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+ printf("\etEntry \(aq%s\(aq does not exist.\en", file_name);
+ } else if ((sb.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR) {
+ printf("\etEntry \(aq%s\(aq is a subdirectory.\en", file_name);
+ } else {
+ printf("\etEntry \(aq%s\(aq is not a subdirectory.\en",
+ file_name);
+ }
+ }
+
/* Close associated file descriptor for this event */
close(event_fd);
--
2.17.1
