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AT_HANDLE_FID was added as an API for name_to_handle_at() that request
the encoding of a file id, which is not intended to be decoded.
This file id is used by fanotify to describe objects in events.
So far, overlayfs is the only filesystem that supports encoding
non-decodeable file ids, by providing export_operations with an
->encode_fh() method and without a ->decode_fh() method.
Add support for encoding non-decodeable file ids to all the filesystems
that do not provide export_operations, by encoding a file id of type
FILEID_INO64_GEN from { i_ino, i_generation }.
A filesystem may that does not support NFS export, can opt-out of
encoding non-decodeable file ids for fanotify by defining an empty
export_operations struct (i.e. with a NULL ->encode_fh() method).
This allows the use of fanotify events with file ids on filesystems
like 9p which do not support NFS export to bring fanotify in feature
parity with inotify on those filesystems.
Note that fanotify also requires that the filesystems report a non-null
fsid. Currently, many simple filesystems that have support for inotify
(e.g. debugfs, tracefs, sysfs) report a null fsid, so can still not be
used with fanotify in file id reporting mode.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023180801.2953446-5-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.