Add manual pages to document the move_mount() system call. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/move_mount.2 | 267 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 267 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man2/move_mount.2 diff --git a/man2/move_mount.2 b/man2/move_mount.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2ceb775d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/move_mount.2 @@ -0,0 +1,267 @@ +'\" 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 +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date.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 author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" %%%LICENSE_END +.\" +.TH MOVE_MOUNT 2 2020-08-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +move_mount \- Move mount objects around the filesystem topology +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <sys/types.h> +.B #include <sys/mount.h> +.B #include <unistd.h> +.BR "#include <fcntl.h> " "/* Definition of AT_* constants */" +.PP +.BI "int move_mount(int " from_dirfd ", const char *" from_pathname "," +.BI " int " to_dirfd ", const char *" to_pathname "," +.BI " unsigned int " flags ); +.fi +.PP +.IR Note : +There is no glibc wrapper for this system call. +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR move_mount () +call moves a mount from one place to another; it can also be used to attach an +unattached mount that was created by +.BR fsmount "() or " open_tree "() with " OPEN_TREE_CLONE . +.PP +If +.BR move_mount () +is called repeatedly with a file descriptor that refers to a mount object, +then the object will be attached/moved the first time and then moved +repeatedly, detaching it from the previous mountpoint each time. +.PP +To access the source mount object or the destination mountpoint, no +permissions are required on the object itself, but if either pathname is +supplied, execute (search) permission is required on all of the directories +specified in +.IR from_pathname " or " to_pathname . +.PP +The caller does, however, require the appropriate privilege (Linux: the +.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN +capability) to move or attach mounts. +.PP +.BR move_mount () +uses +.IR from_pathname ", " from_dirfd " and part of " flags +to locate the mount object to be moved and +.IR to_pathname ", " to_dirfd " and another part of " flags +to locate the destination mountpoint. Each lookup can be done in one of a +variety of ways: +.TP +[*] By absolute path. +The pathname points to an absolute path and the dirfd is ignored. The file is +looked up by name, starting from the root of the filesystem as seen by the +calling process. +.TP +[*] By cwd-relative path. +The pathname points to a relative path and the dirfd is +.IR AT_FDCWD . +The file is looked up by name, starting from the current working directory. +.TP +[*] By dir-relative path. +The pathname points to relative path and the dirfd indicates a file descriptor +pointing to a directory. The file is looked up by name, starting from the +directory specified by +.IR dirfd . +.TP +[*] By file descriptor. The pathname is an empty string (""), the dirfd +points directly to the mount object to move or the destination mount point and +the appropriate +.B *_EMPTY_PATH +flag is set. +.PP +.I flags +can be used to influence a path-based lookup. The value for +.I flags +is constructed by OR'ing together zero or more of the following constants: +.TP +.BR MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH +.\" commit 65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d +If +.I from_pathname +is an empty string, operate on the file referred to by +.IR from_dirfd +(which may have been obtained using the +.BR open (2) +.B O_PATH +flag or +.BR open_tree ()) +If +.I from_dirfd +is +.BR AT_FDCWD , +the call operates on the current working directory. +In this case, +.I from_dirfd +can refer to any type of file, not just a directory. +This flag is Linux-specific; define +.B _GNU_SOURCE +.\" Before glibc 2.16, defining _ATFILE_SOURCE sufficed +to obtain its definition. +.TP +.B MOVE_MOUNT_T_EMPTY_PATH +As above, but operating on +.IR to_pathname " and " to_dirfd . +.TP +.B MOVE_MOUNT_F_AUTOMOUNTS +Don't automount the terminal ("basename") component of +.I from_pathname +if it is a directory that is an automount point. This allows a mount object +that has an automount point at its root to be moved and prevents unintended +triggering of an automount point. +The +.B MOVE_MOUNT_F_AUTOMOUNTS +flag has no effect if the automount point has already been mounted over. This +flag is Linux-specific; define +.B _GNU_SOURCE +.\" Before glibc 2.16, defining _ATFILE_SOURCE sufficed +to obtain its definition. +.TP +.B MOVE_MOUNT_T_AUTOMOUNTS +As above, but operating on +.IR to_pathname " and " to_dirfd . +This allows an automount point to be manually mounted over. +.TP +.B MOVE_MOUNT_F_SYMLINKS +If +.I from_pathname +is a symbolic link, then dereference it. The default for +.BR move_mount () +is to not follow symlinks. +.TP +.B MOVE_MOUNT_T_SYMLINKS +As above, but operating on +.IR to_pathname " and " to_dirfd . +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, 0 is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set appropriately. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EACCES +Search permission is denied for one of the directories +in the path prefix of +.IR pathname . +(See also +.BR path_resolution (7).) +.TP +.B EBADF +.IR from_dirfd " or " to_dirfd +is not a valid open file descriptor. +.TP +.B EFAULT +.IR from_pathname " or " to_pathname +is NULL or either one point to a location outside the process's accessible +address space. +.TP +.B EINVAL +Reserved flag specified in +.IR flags . +.TP +.B ELOOP +Too many symbolic links encountered while traversing the pathname. +.TP +.B ENAMETOOLONG +.IR from_pathname " or " to_pathname +is too long. +.TP +.B ENOENT +A component of +.IR from_pathname " or " to_pathname +does not exist, or one is an empty string and the appropriate +.B *_EMPTY_PATH +was not specified in +.IR flags . +.TP +.B ENOMEM +Out of memory (i.e., kernel memory). +.TP +.B ENOTDIR +A component of the path prefix of +.IR from_pathname " or " to_pathname +is not a directory or one or the other is relative and the appropriate +.I *_dirfd +is a file descriptor referring to a file other than a directory. +.SH VERSIONS +.BR move_mount () +was added to Linux in kernel 5.2. +.SH CONFORMING TO +.BR move_mount () +is Linux-specific. +.SH NOTES +Glibc does not (yet) provide a wrapper for the +.BR move_mount () +system call; call it using +.BR syscall (2). +.SH EXAMPLES +The +.BR move_mount () +function can be used like the following: +.PP +.RS +.nf +move_mount(AT_FDCWD, "/a", AT_FDCWD, "/b", 0); +.fi +.RE +.PP +This would move the object mounted on "/a" to "/b". It can also be used in +conjunction with +.BR open_tree "(2) or " open "(2) with " O_PATH : +.PP +.RS +.nf +fd = open_tree(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", 0); +move_mount(fd, "", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt2", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH); +move_mount(fd, "", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt3", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH); +move_mount(fd, "", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt4", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH); +.fi +.RE +.PP +This would attach the path point for "/mnt" to fd, then it would move the +mount to "/mnt2", then move it to "/mnt3" and finally to "/mnt4". +.PP +It can also be used to attach new mounts: +.PP +.RS +.nf +sfd = fsopen("ext4", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "source", "/dev/sda1", 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "user_xattr", NULL, 0); +fsconfig(sfd, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 0); +mfd = fsmount(sfd, FSMOUNT_CLOEXEC, MOUNT_ATTR_NODEV); +move_mount(mfd, "", AT_FDCWD, "/home", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH); +.fi +.RE +.PP +Which would open the Ext4 filesystem mounted on "/dev/sda1", turn on user +extended attribute support and create a mount object for it. Finally, the new +mount object would be attached with +.BR move_mount () +to "/home". +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR fsmount (2), +.BR fsopen (2), +.BR open_tree (2)