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Jan Kara 5838d4442b fanotify: fix double free of pending permission events
Commit 8581679424 ("fanotify: Fix use after free for permission
events") introduced a double free issue for permission events which are
pending in group's notification queue while group is being destroyed.
These events are freed from fanotify_handle_event() but they are not
removed from groups notification queue and thus they get freed again
from fsnotify_flush_notify().

Fix the problem by removing permission events from notification queue
before freeing them if we skip processing access response.  Also expand
comments in fanotify_release() to explain group shutdown in detail.

Fixes: 8581679424
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Douglas Leeder <douglas.leeder@sophos.com>
Tested-by: Douglas Leeder <douglas.leeder@sophos.com>
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchard <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:12 -07:00
Jan Kara 8ba8fa9170 fsnotify: rename event handling functions
Rename fsnotify_add_notify_event() to fsnotify_add_event() since the
"notify" part is duplicit.  Rename fsnotify_remove_notify_event() and
fsnotify_peek_notify_event() to fsnotify_remove_first_event() and
fsnotify_peek_first_event() respectively since "notify" part is duplicit
and they really look at the first event in the queue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-06 18:01:12 -07:00
Jan Kara ff57cd5863 fsnotify: Allocate overflow events with proper type
Commit 7053aee26a "fsnotify: do not share events between notification
groups" used overflow event statically allocated in a group with the
size of the generic notification event. This causes problems because
some code looks at type specific parts of event structure and gets
confused by a random data it sees there and causes crashes.

Fix the problem by allocating overflow event with type corresponding to
the group type so code cannot get confused.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-02-25 11:18:06 +01:00
Jan Kara 482ef06c5e fanotify: Handle overflow in case of permission events
If the event queue overflows when we are handling permission event, we
will never get response from userspace. So we must avoid waiting for it.
Change fsnotify_add_notify_event() to return whether overflow has
happened so that we can detect it in fanotify_handle_event() and act
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-02-25 11:17:58 +01:00
Jan Kara 2513190a92 fsnotify: Fix detection whether overflow event is queued
Currently we didn't initialize event's list head when we removed it from
the event list. Thus a detection whether overflow event is already
queued wasn't working. Fix it by always initializing the list head when
deleting event from a list.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-02-25 11:17:52 +01:00
Jan Kara 83c0e1b442 fsnotify: Do not return merged event from fsnotify_add_notify_event()
The event returned from fsnotify_add_notify_event() cannot ever be used
safely as the event may be freed by the time the function returns (after
dropping notification_mutex). So change the prototype to just return
whether the event was added or merged into some existing event.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-01-29 13:57:10 +01:00
Jan Kara 7053aee26a fsnotify: do not share events between notification groups
Currently fsnotify framework creates one event structure for each
notification event and links this event into all interested notification
groups.  This is done so that we save memory when several notification
groups are interested in the event.  However the need for event
structure shared between inotify & fanotify bloats the event structure
so the result is often higher memory consumption.

Another problem is that fsnotify framework keeps path references with
outstanding events so that fanotify can return open file descriptors
with its events.  This has the undesirable effect that filesystem cannot
be unmounted while there are outstanding events - a regression for
inotify compared to a situation before it was converted to fsnotify
framework.  For fanotify this problem is hard to avoid and users of
fanotify should kind of expect this behavior when they ask for file
descriptors from notified files.

This patch changes fsnotify and its users to create separate event
structure for each group.  This allows for much simpler code (~400 lines
removed by this patch) and also smaller event structures.  For example
on 64-bit system original struct fsnotify_event consumes 120 bytes, plus
additional space for file name, additional 24 bytes for second and each
subsequent group linking the event, and additional 32 bytes for each
inotify group for private data.  After the conversion inotify event
consumes 48 bytes plus space for file name which is considerably less
memory unless file names are long and there are several groups
interested in the events (both of which are uncommon).  Fanotify event
fits in 56 bytes after the conversion (fanotify doesn't care about file
names so its events don't have to have it allocated).  A win unless
there are four or more fanotify groups interested in the event.

The conversion also solves the problem with unmount when only inotify is
used as we don't have to grab path references for inotify events.

[hughd@google.com: fanotify: fix corruption preventing startup]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21 16:19:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 96680d2b91 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify
Pull filesystem notification updates from Eric Paris:
 "This pull mostly is about locking changes in the fsnotify system.  By
  switching the group lock from a spin_lock() to a mutex() we can now
  hold the lock across things like iput().  This fixes a problem
  involving unmounting a fs and having inodes be busy, first pointed out
  by FAT, but reproducible with tmpfs.

  This also restores signal driven I/O for inotify, which has been
  broken since about 2.6.32."

Ugh.  I *hate* the timing of this.  It was rebased after the merge
window opened, and then left to sit with the pull request coming the day
before the merge window closes.  That's just crap.  But apparently the
patches themselves have been around for over a year, just gathering
dust, so now it's suddenly critical.

Fixed up semantic conflict in fs/notify/fdinfo.c as per Stephen
Rothwell's fixes from -next.

* 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
  inotify: automatically restart syscalls
  inotify: dont skip removal of watch descriptor if creation of ignored event failed
  fanotify: dont merge permission events
  fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify
  fsnotify: change locking order
  fsnotify: dont put marks on temporary list when clearing marks by group
  fsnotify: introduce locked versions of fsnotify_add_mark() and fsnotify_remove_mark()
  fsnotify: pass group to fsnotify_destroy_mark()
  fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list
  fanotify: add an extra flag to mark_remove_from_mask that indicates wheather a mark should be destroyed
  fsnotify: take groups mark_lock before mark lock
  fsnotify: use reference counting for groups
  fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group()
  inotify, fanotify: replace fsnotify_put_group() with fsnotify_destroy_group()
2012-12-20 20:11:52 -08:00
Eric Paris 0a6b6bd591 fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify
inotify is supposed to support async signal notification when information
is available on the inotify fd.  This patch moves that support to generic
fsnotify functions so it can be used by all notification mechanisms.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-12-11 13:44:36 -05:00
Adam Buchbinder b3834be5c4 various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
"Asynchronous" is misspelled in some comments. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-19 14:32:13 +01:00
H Hartley Sweeten 9710a78e55 fs/notify/notification.c: make subsys_initcall function static
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23 16:58:31 -07:00
Arun Sharma 60063497a9 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2069601b3f Revert "fsnotify: store struct file not struct path"
This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4 (and the
accompanying commit c1e5c95402 "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay
the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at
all).

The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it
somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with
f_count handling.

Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12 14:23:04 -07:00
Eric Paris c1e5c95402 vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput
fanotify almost works like so:

user context calls fsnotify_* function with a struct file.
   fsnotify takes a reference on the struct path
user context goes about it's buissiness

at some later point in time the fsnotify listener gets the struct path
   fanotify listener calls dentry_open() to create a file which userspace can deal with
      listener drops the reference on the struct path
at some later point the listener calls close() on it's new file

With the switch from struct path to struct file this presents a problem for
fput() and fsnotify_close().  fsnotify_close() is called when the filp has
already reached 0 and __fput() wants to do it's cleanup.

The solution presented here is a bit odd.  If an event is created from a
struct file we take a reference on the file.  We check however if the f_count
was already 0 and if so we take an EXTRA reference EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ZERO.
In __fput() (where we know the f_count hit 0 once) we check if the f_count is
non-zero and if so we drop that 'extra' ref and return without destroying the
file.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:51 -04:00
Eric Paris 3bcf3860a4 fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
Al explains that calling dentry_open() with a mnt/dentry pair is only
garunteed to be safe if they are already used in an open struct file.  To
make sure this is the case don't store and use a struct path in fsnotify,
always use a struct file.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:51 -04:00
Eric Paris f70ab54cc6 fsnotify: fsnotify_add_notify_event should return an event
Rather than the horrific void ** argument and such just to pass the
fanotify_merge event back to the caller of fsnotify_add_notify_event() have
those things return an event if it was different than the event suggusted to
be added.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:50 -04:00
Eric Paris 5ba08e2eeb fsnotify: add pr_debug throughout
It can be hard to debug fsnotify since there are so few printks.  Use
pr_debug to allow for dynamic debugging.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:50 -04:00
Eric Paris 59b0df211b fsnotify: use unsigned char * for dentry->d_name.name
fsnotify was using char * when it passed around the d_name.name string
internally but it is actually an unsigned char *.  This patch switches
fsnotify to use unsigned and should silence some pointer signess warnings
which have popped out of xfs.  I do not add -Wpointer-sign to the fsnotify
code as there are still issues with kstrdup and strlen which would pop
out needless warnings.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:01 -04:00
Eric Paris 6e5f77b32e fsnotify: intoduce a notification merge argument
Each group can define their own notification (and secondary_q) merge
function.  Inotify does tail drop, fanotify does matching and drop which
can actually allocate a completely new event.  But for fanotify to properly
deal with permissions events it needs to know the new event which was
ultimately added to the notification queue.  This patch just implements a
void ** argument which is passed to the merge function.  fanotify can use
this field to pass the new event back to higher layers.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
for fanotify to properly deal with permissions events
2010-07-28 09:59:01 -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
Andreas Gruenbacher 72acc85442 fsnotify: kill FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE
Some fsnotify operations send a struct file.  This is more information than
we technically need.  We instead send a struct path in all cases instead of
sometimes a path and sometimes a file.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:53 -04:00
Eric Paris cac69dad32 fsnotify: lock annotation for event replacement
fsnotify_replace_event need to lock both the old and the new event.  This
causes lockdep to get all pissed off since it dosn't know this is safe.
It's safe in this case since the new event is impossible to be reached from
other places in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:50 -04:00
Eric Paris 1201a5361b fsnotify: replace an event on a list
fanotify would like to clone events already on its notification list, make
changes to the new event, and then replace the old event on the list with
the new event.  This patch implements the replace functionality of that
process.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:49 -04:00
Eric Paris b4e4e14073 fsnotify: clone existing events
fsnotify_clone_event will take an event, clone it, and return the cloned
event to the caller.  Since events may be in use by multiple fsnotify
groups simultaneously certain event entries (such as the mask) cannot be
changed after the event was created.  Since fanotify would like to merge
events happening on the same file it needs a new clean event to work with
so it can change any fields it wishes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:49 -04:00
Eric Paris 74766bbfa9 fsnotify: per group notification queue merge types
inotify only wishes to merge a new event with the last event on the
notification fifo.  fanotify is willing to merge any events including by
means of bitwise OR masks of multiple events together.  This patch moves
the inotify event merging logic out of the generic fsnotify notification.c
and into the inotify code.  This allows each use of fsnotify to provide
their own merge functionality.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:49 -04:00
Eric Paris 6f3a539e3b fsnotify: use kmem_cache_zalloc to simplify event initialization
fsnotify event initialization is done entry by entry with almost everything
set to either 0 or NULL.  Use kmem_cache_zalloc and only initialize things
that need non-zero initialization.  Also means we don't have to change
initialization entries based on the config options.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:20 -04:00
Eric Paris b4277d3dd5 fsnotify: use fsnotify_create_event to allocate the q_overflow event
Currently fsnotify defines a static fsnotify event which is sent when a
group overflows its allotted queue length.  This patch just allocates that
event from the event cache rather than defining it statically.  There is no
known reason that the current implementation is wrong, but this makes sure the
event is initialized and created like any other.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:19 -04:00
Wei Yongjun 3de0ef4f20 inotify: fix coalesce duplicate events into a single event in special case
If we do rename a dir entry, like this:

  rename("/tmp/ino7UrgoJ.rename1", "/tmp/ino7UrgoJ.rename2")
  rename("/tmp/ino7UrgoJ.rename2", "/tmp/ino7UrgoJ")

The duplicate events should be coalesced into a single event. But those two
events do not be coalesced into a single event, due to some bad check in
event_compare(). It can not match the two NULL inodes as the same event.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-10-18 15:49:38 -04:00
Eric Paris cd94c8bbef inotify: tail drop inotify q_overflow events
In f44aebcc the tail drop logic of events with no file backing
(q_overflow and in_ignored) was reversed so IN_IGNORED events would
never be tail dropped.  This now means that Q_OVERFLOW events are NOT
tail dropped.  The fix is to not tail drop IN_IGNORED, but to tail drop
Q_OVERFLOW.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-17 13:37:37 -07:00
Eric Paris eef3a116be notify: unused event private race
inotify decides if private data it passed to get added to an event was
used by checking list_empty().  But it's possible that the event may
have been dequeued and the private event removed so it would look empty.

The fix is to use the return code from fsnotify_add_notify_event rather
than looking at the list.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-17 13:37:37 -07:00
Eric Paris f44aebcc56 inotify: use GFP_NOFS under potential memory pressure
inotify can have a watchs removed under filesystem reclaim.

=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.31-rc2 #16
---------------------------------
inconsistent {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} -> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} usage.
khubd/217 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
 (iprune_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<c10ba899>] invalidate_inodes+0x20/0xe3
{IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} state was registered at:
  [<c10536ab>] __lock_acquire+0x2c9/0xac4
  [<c1053f45>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0xc2
  [<c1308872>] __mutex_lock_common+0x2d/0x323
  [<c1308c00>] mutex_lock_nested+0x2e/0x36
  [<c10ba6ff>] shrink_icache_memory+0x38/0x1b2
  [<c108bfb6>] shrink_slab+0xe2/0x13c
  [<c108c3e1>] kswapd+0x3d1/0x55d
  [<c10449b5>] kthread+0x66/0x6b
  [<c1003fdf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

Two things are needed to fix this.  First we need a method to tell
fsnotify_create_event() to use GFP_NOFS and second we need to stop using
one global IN_IGNORED event and allocate them one at a time.  This solves
current issues with multiple IN_IGNORED on a queue having tail drop
problems and simplifies the allocations since we don't have to worry about
two tasks opperating on the IGNORED event concurrently.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21 15:26:27 -04:00
Eric Paris c05594b621 fsnotify: fix inotify tail drop check with path entries
fsnotify drops new events when they are the same as the tail event on the
queue to be sent to userspace.  The problem is that if the event comes with
a path we forget to break out of the switch statement and fall into the
code path which matches on events that do not have any type of file backed
information (things like IN_UNMOUNT and IN_Q_OVERFLOW).  The problem is
that this code thinks all such events should be dropped.  Fix is to add a
break.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21 15:26:26 -04:00
Eric Paris 4a148ba988 inotify: check filename before dropping repeat events
inotify drops events if the last event on the queue is the same as the
current event.  But it does 2 things wrong.  First it is comparing old->inode
with new->inode.  But after an event if put on the queue the ->inode is no
longer allowed to be used.  It's possible between the last event and this new
event the inode could be reused and we would falsely match the inode's memory
address between two differing events.

The second problem is that when a file is removed fsnotify is passed the
negative dentry for the removed object rather than the postive dentry from
immediately before the removal.  This mean the (broken) inotify tail drop code
was matching the NULL ->inode of differing events.

The fix is to check the file name which is stored with events when doing the
tail drop instead of wrongly checking the address of the stored ->inode.

Reported-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21 15:26:26 -04:00
Eric Paris e4aff11736 fsnotify: allow groups to add private data to events
inotify needs per group information attached to events.  This patch allows
groups to attach private information and implements a callback so that
information can be freed when an event is being destroyed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:54 -04:00
Eric Paris 47882c6f51 fsnotify: add correlations between events
As part of the standard inotify events it includes a correlation cookie
between two dentry move operations.  This patch includes the same behaviour
in fsnotify events.  It is needed so that inotify userspace can be
implemented on top of fsnotify.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:54 -04:00
Eric Paris 62ffe5dfba fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possible
When inotify wants to send events to a directory about a child it includes
the name of the original file.  This patch collects that filename and makes
it available for notification.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris a2d8bc6cb4 fsnotify: generic notification queue and waitq
inotify needs to do asyc notification in which event information is stored
on a queue until the listener is ready to receive it.  This patch
implements a generic notification queue for inotify (and later fanotify) to
store events to be sent at a later time.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris 90586523eb fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend
fsnotify is a backend for filesystem notification.  fsnotify does
not provide any userspace interface but does provide the basis
needed for other notification schemes such as dnotify.  fsnotify
can be extended to be the backend for inotify or the upcoming
fanotify.  fsnotify provides a mechanism for "groups" to register for
some set of filesystem events and to then deliver those events to
those groups for processing.

fsnotify has a number of benefits, the first being actually shrinking the size
of an inode.  Before fsnotify to support both dnotify and inotify an inode had

        unsigned long           i_dnotify_mask; /* Directory notify events */
        struct dnotify_struct   *i_dnotify; /* for directory notifications */
        struct list_head        inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */
        struct mutex            inotify_mutex;  /* protects the watches list

But with fsnotify this same functionallity (and more) is done with just

        __u32                   i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events for this inode */
        struct hlist_head       i_fsnotify_mark_entries; /* marks on this inode */

That's right, inotify, dnotify, and fanotify all in 64 bits.  We used that
much space just in inotify_watches alone, before this patch set.

fsnotify object lifetime and locking is MUCH better than what we have today.
inotify locking is incredibly complex.  See 8f7b0ba1c8 as an example of
what's been busted since inception.  inotify needs to know internal semantics
of superblock destruction and unmounting to function.  The inode pinning and
vfs contortions are horrible.

no fsnotify implementers do allocation under locks.  This means things like
f04b30de3 which (due to an overabundance of caution) changes GFP_KERNEL to
GFP_NOFS can be reverted.  There are no longer any allocation rules when using
or implementing your own fsnotify listener.

fsnotify paves the way for fanotify.  In brief fanotify is a notification
mechanism that delivers the lisener both an 'event' and an open file descriptor
to the object in question.  This means that fanotify is pathname agnostic.
Some on lkml may not care for the original companies or users that pushed for
TALPA, but fanotify was designed with flexibility and input for other users in
mind.  The readahead group expressed interest in fanotify as it could be used
to profile disk access on boot without breaking the audit system.  The desktop
search groups have also expressed interest in fanotify as it solves a number
of the race conditions and problems present with managing inotify when more
than a limited number of specific files are of interest.  fanotify can provide
for a userspace access control system which makes it a clean interface for AV
vendors to hook without trying to do binary patching on the syscall table,
LSM, and everywhere else they do their things today.  With this patch series
fanotify can be implemented in less than 1200 lines of easy to review code.
Almost all of which is the socket based user interface.

This patch series builds fsnotify to the point that it can implement
dnotify and inotify_user.  Patches exist and will be sent soon after
acceptance to finish the in kernel inotify conversion (audit) and implement
fanotify.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:52 -04:00