On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 04:01:01PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: > Jan, > > Following up on the FAN_REPORT_ANY_FID proposal [1], here is a shot at an > alternative proposal to seamlessly support more filesystems. > > While fanotify relaxes the requirements for filesystems to support > reporting fid to require only the ->encode_fh() operation, there are > currently no new filesystems that meet the relaxed requirements. > > I will shortly post patches that allow overlayfs to meet the new > requirements with default overlay configurations. > > The overlay and vfs/fanotify patch sets are completely independent. > The are both available on my github branch [2] and there is a simple > LTP test variant that tests reporting fid from overlayfs [3], which > also demonstrates the minor UAPI change of name_to_handle_at(2) for > requesting a non-decodeable file handle by userspace. > > Thanks, > Amir. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20230417162721.ouzs33oh6mb7vtft@quack3/ > [2] https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/exportfs_encode_fid > [3] https://github.com/amir73il/ltp/commits/exportfs_encode_fid > > Amir Goldstein (4): > exportfs: change connectable argument to bit flags > exportfs: add explicit flag to request non-decodeable file handles > exportfs: allow exporting non-decodeable file handles to userspace > fanotify: support reporting non-decodeable file handles > > Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst | 4 +-- > fs/exportfs/expfs.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++--- > fs/fhandle.c | 20 ++++++++------ > fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c | 5 ++-- > fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c | 4 +-- > fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 6 ++--- > fs/notify/fdinfo.c | 2 +- > include/linux/exportfs.h | 18 ++++++++++--- > include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h | 5 ++++ > 9 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) Hello Amir- Note that the maintainers of exportfs are Jeff and myself. Please copy us on future versions of this patch series. Thanks! [cel@klimt even-releases]$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl fs/exportfs/ Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:KERNEL NFSD, SUNRPC, AND LOCKD SERVERS) Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> (supporter:KERNEL NFSD, SUNRPC, AND LOCKD SERVERS) linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:KERNEL NFSD, SUNRPC, AND LOCKD SERVERS) linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)
