On Thu 21-11-24 19:37:43, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 7:31 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu 21-11-24 15:18:36, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 11:44 AM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > and also always emitted ACCESS_PERM. > > > > > > I know that and it's one of those mostly useless events AFAICT. > > > > > > > my POC is using that PRE_ACCESS to populate > > > > directories on-demand, although the functionality is incomplete without the > > > > "populate on lookup" event. > > > > > > Exactly. Without "populate on lookup" doing "populate on readdir" is ok for > > > a demo but not really usable in practice because you can get spurious > > > ENOENT from a lookup. > > > > > > > > avoid the mistake of original fanotify which had some events available on > > > > > directories but they did nothing and then you have to ponder hard whether > > > > > you're going to break userspace if you actually start emitting them... > > > > > > > > But in any case, the FAN_ONDIR built-in filter is applicable to PRE_ACCESS. > > > > > > Well, I'm not so concerned about filtering out uninteresting events. I'm > > > more concerned about emitting the event now and figuring out later that we > > > need to emit it in different places or with some other info when actual > > > production users appear. > > > > > > But I've realized we must allow pre-content marks to be placed on dirs so > > > that such marks can be placed on parents watching children. What we'd need > > > to forbid is a combination of FAN_ONDIR and FAN_PRE_ACCESS, wouldn't we? > > > > Yes, I think that can work well for now. > > > > Only it does not require only check at API time that both flags are not > set, because FAN_ONDIR can be set earlier and then FAN_PRE_ACCESS > can be added later and vice versa, so need to do this in > fanotify_may_update_existing_mark() AFAICT. I have now something like: @@ -1356,7 +1356,7 @@ static int fanotify_group_init_error_pool(struct fsnotify_group *group) } static int fanotify_may_update_existing_mark(struct fsnotify_mark *fsn_mark, - unsigned int fan_flags) + __u32 mask, unsigned int fan_flags) { /* * Non evictable mark cannot be downgraded to evictable mark. @@ -1383,6 +1383,11 @@ static int fanotify_may_update_existing_mark(struct fsnotify_mark *fsn_mark, fsn_mark->flags & FSNOTIFY_MARK_FLAG_IGNORED_SURV_MODIFY) return -EEXIST; + /* For now pre-content events are not generated for directories */ + mask |= fsn_mark->mask; + if (mask & FANOTIFY_PRE_CONTENT_EVENTS && mask & FAN_ONDIR) + return -EEXIST; + return 0; } So far only compile tested... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR