1
0
Fork 0
Commit Graph

34 Commits (0d945c1f966b2bcb67bb12be749da0a7fb00201b)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Amir Goldstein d0a6a87e40 fanotify: support reporting thread id instead of process id
In order to identify which thread triggered the event in a
multi-threaded program, add the FAN_REPORT_TID flag in fanotify_init to
opt-in for reporting the event creator's thread id information.

Signed-off-by: nixiaoming <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-08 13:48:45 +02:00
Amir Goldstein bdd5a46fe3 fanotify: add BUILD_BUG_ON() to count the bits of fanotify constants
Also define the FANOTIFY_EVENT_FLAGS consisting of the extra flags
FAN_ONDIR and FAN_ON_CHILD.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-04 13:30:03 +02:00
Amir Goldstein 23c9deeb32 fanotify: deprecate uapi FAN_ALL_* constants
We do not want to add new bits to the FAN_ALL_* uapi constants
because they have been exposed to userspace.  If there are programs
out there using these constants, those programs could break if
re-compiled with modified FAN_ALL_* constants and run on an old kernel.

We deprecate the uapi constants FAN_ALL_* and define new FANOTIFY_*
constants for internal use to replace them. New feature bits will be
added only to the new constants.

Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-04 13:28:38 +02:00
Amir Goldstein a72fd224e3 fanotify: simplify handling of FAN_ONDIR
fanotify mark add/remove code jumps through hoops to avoid setting the
FS_ISDIR in the commulative object mask.

That was just papering over a bug in fsnotify() handling of the FS_ISDIR
extra flag. This bug is now fixed, so all the hoops can be removed along
with the unneeded internal flag FAN_MARK_ONDIR.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-04 13:28:29 +02:00
Amir Goldstein b723a7911d fanotify: fix collision of internal and uapi mark flags
The new mark flag FAN_MARK_FILESYSTEMS collides with existing internal
flag FAN_MARK_ONDIR. Change internal flag value to avoid the collision.

Fixes: d54f4fba88 ("fanotify: add API to attach/detach super block mark")
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-10-04 13:27:48 +02:00
Amir Goldstein 96a71f21ef fanotify: store fanotify_init() flags in group's fanotify_data
This averts the need to re-generate flags in fanotify_show_fdinfo()
and sets the scene for addition of more upcoming flags without growing
new members to the fanotify_data struct.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-09-27 15:29:00 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
David Howells 607ca46e97 UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-13 10:46:48 +01:00
Alexey Zaytsev 62731fa0c8 fanotify: split version into version and metadata_len
To implement per event type optional headers we are interested in
knowing how long the metadata structure is.  This patch slits the __u32
version field into a __u8 version and a __u16 metadata_len field (with
__u8 left over).  This should allow for backwards compat ABI.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
[rewrote descrtion and changed object sizes and ordering - eparis]
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-12-15 13:56:33 -05:00
Lino Sanfilippo e9a3854fd4 fanotify: Introduce FAN_NOFD
FAN_NOFD is used in fanotify events that do not provide an open file
descriptor (like the overflow_event).

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-12-07 16:14:23 -05:00
Eric Paris 88d60c3276 fanotify: remove packed from access response message
Since fanotify has decided to be careful about alignment and packing
rather than rely on __attribute__((packed)) for multiarch support.
Since this attribute isn't doing anything on fanotify_response we just
drop it.  This does not break API/ABI.

Suggested-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-12-07 16:14:20 -05:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 50e4a98914 fanotify: Fix FAN_CLOSE comments
The comments for FAN_CLOSE_WRITE and FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE do not match
FS_CLOSE_WRITE and FS_CLOSE_NOWRITE, respectively.  WRITE is for
writable files while NOWRITE is for non-writable files.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:16 -04:00
Eric Paris 8fcd65280a fanotify: ignore events on directories unless specifically requested
fanotify has a very limited number of events it sends on directories.  The
usefulness of these events is yet to be seen and still we send them.  This
is particularly painful for mount marks where one might receive many of
these useless events.  As such this patch will drop events on IS_DIR()
inodes unless they were explictly requested with FAN_ON_DIR.

This means that a mark on a directory without FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD or
FAN_ON_DIR is meaningless and will result in no events ever (although it
will still be allowed since detecting it is hard)

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:16 -04:00
Eric Paris ac7e22dcfa fanotify: allow userspace to override max marks
Some fanotify groups, especially those like AV scanners, will need to place
lots of marks, particularly ignore marks.  Since ignore marks do not pin
inodes in cache and are cleared if the inode is removed from core (usually
under memory pressure) we expose an interface for listeners, with
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, to override the maximum number of marks and be allowed to
set and 'unlimited' number of marks.  Programs which make use of this
feature will be able to OOM a machine.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:15 -04:00
Eric Paris 5dd03f55fd fanotify: allow userspace to override max queue depth
fanotify has a defualt max queue depth.  This patch allows processes which
explicitly request it to have an 'unlimited' queue depth.  These processes
need to be very careful to make sure they cannot fall far enough behind
that they OOM the box.  Thus this flag is gated on CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:14 -04:00
Eric Paris 2529a0df0f fsnotify: implement a default maximum queue depth
Currently fanotify has no maximum queue depth.  Since fanotify is
CAP_SYS_ADMIN only this does not pose a normal user DoS issue, but it
certianly is possible that an fanotify listener which can't keep up could
OOM the box.  This patch implements a default 16k depth.  This is the same
default depth used by inotify, but given fanotify's better queue merging in
many situations this queue will contain many additional useful events by
comparison.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:14 -04:00
Eric Paris bbf2aba50f fanotify: allow userspace to flush all marks
fanotify is supposed to be able to flush all marks.  This is mostly useful
for the AV community to flush all cached decisions on a security policy
change.  This functionality has existed in the kernel but wasn't correctly
exposed to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:14 -04:00
Eric Paris 2868201965 fanotify: use __aligned_u64 in fanotify userspace metadata
Currently the userspace struct exposed by fanotify uses
__attribute__((packed)) to make sure that alignment works on multiarch
platforms.  Since this causes a severe performance penalty on some
platforms we are going to switch to using explicit alignment notation on
the 64bit values so we don't have to use 'packed'

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:13 -04:00
Eric Paris 4231a23530 fanotify: implement fanotify listener ordering
The fanotify listeners needs to be able to specify what types of operations
they are going to perform so they can be ordered appropriately between other
listeners doing other types of operations.  They need this to be able to make
sure that things like hierarchichal storage managers will get access to inodes
before processes which need the data.  This patch defines 3 possible uses
which groups must indicate in the fanotify_init() flags.

FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT
FAN_CLASS_CONTENT
FAN_CLASS_NOTIF

Groups will receive notification in that order.  The order between 2 groups in
the same class is undeterministic.

FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT is intended to be used by listeners which need access to
the inode before they are certain that the inode contains it's final data.  A
hierarchical storage manager should choose to use this class.

FAN_CLASS_CONTENT is intended to be used by listeners which need access to the
inode after it contains its intended contents.  This would be the appropriate
level for an AV solution or document control system.

FAN_CLASS_NOTIF is intended for normal async notification about access, much the
same as inotify and dnotify.  Syncronous permissions events are not permitted
at this class.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:13 -04:00
Tvrtko Ursulin 0fb85621df fanotify: resize pid and reorder structure
resize pid and reorder the fanotify_event_metadata so it is naturally
aligned and we can work towards dropping the packed attributed

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-27 19:54:09 -04:00
Eric Paris 2eebf582c9 fanotify: flush outstanding perm requests on group destroy
When an fanotify listener is closing it may cause a deadlock between the
listener and the original task doing an fs operation.  If the original task
is waiting for a permissions response it will be holding the srcu lock.  The
listener cannot clean up and exit until after that srcu lock is syncronized.
Thus deadlock.  The fix introduced here is to stop accepting new permissions
events when a listener is shutting down and to grant permission for all
outstanding events.  Thus the original task will eventually release the srcu
lock and the listener can complete shutdown.

Reported-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-22 20:28:16 -04:00
Eric Paris b2d879096a fanotify: userspace interface for permission responses
fanotify groups need to respond to events which include permissions types.
To do so groups will send a response using write() on the fanotify_fd they
have open.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:02 -04:00
Eric Paris 9e66e4233d fanotify: permissions and blocking
This is the backend work needed for fanotify to support the new
FS_OPEN_PERM and FS_ACCESS_PERM fsnotify events.  This is done using the
new fsnotify secondary queue.  No userspace interface is provided actually
respond to or request these events.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:02 -04:00
Eric Paris 4d92604cc9 fanotify: clear all fanotify marks
fanotify listeners may want to clear all marks.  They may want to do this
to destroy all of their inode marks which have nothing but ignores.
Realistically this is useful for av vendors who update policy and want to
clear all of their cached allows.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:00 -04:00
Eric Paris c9778a98e7 fanotify: allow ignored_masks to survive modify
Some users may want to truely ignore an inode even if it has been modified.
Say you are wanting a mount which contains a log file and you really don't
want any notification about that file.  This patch allows the listener to
do that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:00 -04:00
Eric Paris b9e4e3bd04 fanotify: allow users to set an ignored_mask
Change the sys_fanotify_mark() system call so users can set ignored_masks
on inodes.  Remember, if a user new sets a real mask, and only sets ignored
masks, the ignore will never be pinned in memory.  Thus ignored_masks can
be lost under memory pressure and the user may again get events they
previously thought were ignored.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:00 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher 88380fe66e fanotify: remove fanotify.h declarations
fanotify_mark_validate functions are all needlessly declared in headers as
static inlines.  Instead just do the checks where they are needed for code
readability.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:59 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher eac8e9e80c fanotify: rename FAN_MARK_ON_VFSMOUNT to FAN_MARK_MOUNT
the term 'vfsmount' isn't sensicle to userspace.  instead call is 'mount.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:59 -04:00
Eric Paris 0ff21db9fc fanotify: hooks the fanotify_mark syscall to the vfsmount code
Create a new fanotify_mark flag which indicates we should attach the mark
to the vfsmount holding the object referenced by dfd and pathname rather
than the inode itself.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:59 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher 32c3263221 fanotify: Add pids to events
Pass the process identifiers of the triggering processes to fanotify
listeners: this information is useful for event filtering and logging.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:56 -04:00
Eric Paris a1014f1023 fanotify: send events using read
Send events to userspace by reading the file descriptor from fanotify_init().
One will get blocks of data which look like:

struct fanotify_event_metadata {
	__u32 event_len;
	__u32 vers;
	__s32 fd;
	__u64 mask;
	__s64 pid;
	__u64 cookie;
} __attribute__ ((packed));

Simple code to retrieve and deal with events is below

	while ((len = read(fan_fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0) {
		struct fanotify_event_metadata *metadata;

		metadata = (void *)buf;
		while(FAN_EVENT_OK(metadata, len)) {
			[PROCESS HERE!!]
			if (metadata->fd >= 0 && close(metadata->fd) != 0)
				goto fail;
			metadata = FAN_EVENT_NEXT(metadata, len);
		}
	}

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:56 -04:00
Eric Paris 2a3edf8604 fanotify: fanotify_mark syscall implementation
NAME
	fanotify_mark - add, remove, or modify an fanotify mark on a
filesystem object

SYNOPSIS
	int fanotify_mark(int fanotify_fd, unsigned int flags, u64 mask,
			  int dfd, const char *pathname)

DESCRIPTION
	fanotify_mark() is used to add remove or modify a mark on a filesystem
	object.  Marks are used to indicate that the fanotify group is
	interested in events which occur on that object.  At this point in
	time marks may only be added to files and directories.

	fanotify_fd must be a file descriptor returned by fanotify_init()

	The flags field must contain exactly one of the following:

	FAN_MARK_ADD - or the bits in mask and ignored mask into the mark
	FAN_MARK_REMOVE - bitwise remove the bits in mask and ignored mark
		from the mark

	The following values can be OR'd into the flags field:

	FAN_MARK_DONT_FOLLOW - same meaning as O_NOFOLLOW as described in open(2)
	FAN_MARK_ONLYDIR - same meaning as O_DIRECTORY as described in open(2)

	dfd may be any of the following:
	AT_FDCWD: the object will be lookup up based on pathname similar
		to open(2)

	file descriptor of a directory: if pathname is not NULL the
		object to modify will be lookup up similar to openat(2)

	file descriptor of the final object: if pathname is NULL the
		object to modify will be the object referenced by dfd

	The mask is the bitwise OR of the set of events of interest such as:
	FAN_ACCESS		- object was accessed (read)
	FAN_MODIFY		- object was modified (write)
	FAN_CLOSE_WRITE		- object was writable and was closed
	FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE	- object was read only and was closed
	FAN_OPEN		- object was opened
	FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD	- interested in objected that happen to
				  children.  Only relavent when the object
				  is a directory
	FAN_Q_OVERFLOW		- event queue overflowed (not implemented)

RETURN VALUE
	On success, this system call returns 0. On error, -1 is
	returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
	EINVAL An invalid value was specified in flags.

	EINVAL An invalid value was specified in mask.

	EINVAL An invalid value was specified in ignored_mask.

	EINVAL fanotify_fd is not a file descriptor as returned by
	fanotify_init()

	EBADF fanotify_fd is not a valid file descriptor

	EBADF dfd is not a valid file descriptor and path is NULL.

	ENOTDIR dfd is not a directory and path is not NULL

	EACCESS no search permissions on some part of the path

	ENENT file not found

	ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory is available.

CONFORMING TO
	These system calls are Linux-specific.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:56 -04:00
Eric Paris 52c923dd07 fanotify: fanotify_init syscall implementation
NAME
	fanotify_init - initialize an fanotify group

SYNOPSIS
	int fanotify_init(unsigned int flags, unsigned int event_f_flags, int priority);

DESCRIPTION
	fanotify_init() initializes a new fanotify instance and returns a file
	descriptor associated with the new fanotify event queue.

	The following values can be OR'd into the flags field:

	FAN_NONBLOCK Set the O_NONBLOCK file status flag on the new open file description.
		Using this flag saves extra calls to fcntl(2) to achieve the same
		result.

	FAN_CLOEXEC Set the close-on-exec (FD_CLOEXEC) flag on the new file descriptor.
		See the description of the O_CLOEXEC flag in open(2) for reasons why
		this may be useful.

	The event_f_flags argument is unused and must be set to 0

	The priority argument is unused and must be set to 0

RETURN VALUE
	On success, this system call return a new file descriptor. On error, -1 is
	returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
	EINVAL An invalid value was specified in flags.

	EINVAL A non-zero valid was passed in event_f_flags or in priority

	ENFILE The system limit on the total number of file descriptors has been reached.

	ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory is available.

CONFORMING TO
	These system calls are Linux-specific.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:55 -04:00
Eric Paris ff0b16a985 fanotify: fscking all notification system
fanotify is a novel file notification system which bases notification on
giving userspace both an event type (open, close, read, write) and an open
file descriptor to the object in question.  This should address a number of
races and problems with other notification systems like inotify and dnotify
and should allow the future implementation of blocking or access controlled
notification.  These are useful for on access scanners or hierachical storage
management schemes.

This patch just implements the basics of the fsnotify functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:54 -04:00