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>
To differentiate between inode and vfsmount (or other future) types of
marks we add a flags field and set the inode bit on inode marks (the only
currently supported type of mark)
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
vfsmount marks need mostly the same data as inode specific fields, but for
consistency and understandability we put that data in a vfsmount specific
struct inside a union with inode specific data.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The addition of marks on vfs mounts will be simplified if the inode
specific parts of a mark and the vfsmnt specific parts of a mark are
actually in a union so naming can be easy. This patch just implements the
inode struct and the union.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To ensure that a group will not duplicate events when it receives it based
on the vfsmount and the inode should_send_event test we should distinguish
those two cases. We pass a vfsmount to this function so groups can make
their own determinations.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
currently all of the notification systems implemented select which inodes
they care about and receive messages only about those inodes (or the
children of those inodes.) This patch begins to flesh out fsnotify support
for the concept of listeners that want to hear notification for an inode
accessed below a given monut point. This patch implements a second list
of fsnotify groups to hold these types of groups and a second global mask
to hold the events of interest for this type of group.
The reason we want a second group list and mask is because the inode based
notification should_send_event support which makes each group look for a mark
on the given inode. With one nfsmount listener that means that every group would
have to take the inode->i_lock, look for their mark, not find one, and return
for every operation. By seperating vfsmount from inode listeners only when
there is a inode listener will the inode groups have to look for their
mark and take the inode lock. vfsmount listeners will have to grab the lock and
look for a mark but there should be fewer of them, and one vfsmount listener
won't cause the i_lock to be grabbed and released for every fsnotify group
on every io operation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Simple renaming patch. fsnotify is about to support mount point listeners
so I am renaming fsnotify_groups and fsnotify_mask to indicate these are lists
used only for groups which have watches on inodes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify_obtain_group was intended to be able to find an already existing
group. Nothing uses that functionality. This just renames it to
fsnotify_alloc_group so it is clear what it is doing.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The original fsnotify interface has a group-num which was intended to be
able to find a group after it was added. I no longer think this is a
necessary thing to do and so we remove the group_num.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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>
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>
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>
fanotify needs a path in order to open an fd to the object which changed.
Currently notifications to inode's parents are done using only the inode.
For some parental notification we have the entire file, send that so
fanotify can use it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify is going to need to look at file->private_data to know if an event
should be sent or not. This passes the data (which might be a file,
dentry, inode, or none) to the should_send function calls so fanotify can
get that information when available
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify is only interested in event types which contain enough information
to open the original file in the context of the fanotify listener. Since
fanotify may not want to send events if that data isn't present we pass
the data type to the should_send_event function call so fanotify can express
its lack of interest.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Simply switch audit_trees from using inotify to using fsnotify for it's
inode pinning and disappearing act information.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This patch allows a task to add a second fsnotify mark to an inode for the
same group. This mark will be added to the end of the inode's list and
this will never be found by the stand fsnotify_find_mark() function. This
is useful if a user wants to add a new mark before removing the old one.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Simple copy fsnotify information from one mark to another in preparation
for the second mark to replace the first.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Audit currently uses inotify to pin inodes in core and to detect when
watched inodes are deleted or unmounted. This patch uses fsnotify instead
of inotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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>
The new fsnotify infrastructure (starting at 90586523) causes an oops in
spufs, where we populate a directory with files before instantiating the
directory itself. The new changes seem to have introduced an assumption
that a dentry's parent will be positive when instantiating.
This change makes it once again possible to d_instantiate a dentry
with a negative parent, and brings __fsnotify_d_instantiate() into
line with inotify_d_instantiate(), which already has this NULL check.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Reimplement inotify_user using fsnotify. This should be feature for feature
exactly the same as the original inotify_user. This does not make any changes
to the in kernel inotify feature used by audit. Those patches (and the eventual
removal of in kernel inotify) will come after the new inotify_user proves to be
working correctly.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
When an fs is unmounted with an fsnotify mark entry attached to one of its
inodes we need to destroy that mark entry and we also (like inotify) send
an unmount event.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Reimplement dnotify using fsnotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
inotify and dnotify both use a similar parent notification mechanism. We
add a generic parent notification mechanism to fsnotify for both of these
to use. This new machanism also adds the dentry flag optimization which
exists for inotify to dnotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This patch creates a way for fsnotify groups to attach marks to inodes.
These marks have little meaning to the generic fsnotify infrastructure
and thus their meaning should be interpreted by the group that attached
them to the inode's list.
dnotify and inotify will make use of these markings to indicate which
inodes are of interest to their respective groups. But this implementation
has the useful property that in the future other listeners could actually
use the marks for the exact opposite reason, aka to indicate which inodes
it had NO interest in.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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>
Eric Paris