| From: |
| "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
| To: |
| hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH -V2] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls |
| Date: |
| Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:39:01 +0530 |
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| <1268932144-14105-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
| Cc: |
| linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, adilger@sun.com, corbet@lwn.net |
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The below set of patches implement open by handle support using exportfs
operations. This allows user space application to map a file name to file
handle and later open the file using handle. This should be usable
for userspace NFS [1] and 9P server [2]. XFS already support this with the ioctls
XFS_IOC_PATH_TO_HANDLE and XFS_IOC_OPEN_BY_HANDLE.
[1] http://nfs-ganesha.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-03/msg0...
Changes from v1:
a) handle size is now specified in bytes
b) returns -EOVERFLOW if the handle size is small
c) dropped open_handle syscall and added open_by_handle_at syscall
open_by_handle_at takes mount_fd as the directory fd of the mount point
containing the file
e) handle will only be unique in a given file system. So for an NFS server
exporting multiple file system, NFS server will have to internally track the
mount point to which a file handle belongs to. We should be able to do it much
easily than expecting kernel to give a system wide unique file handle. System
wide unique file handle would need much larger changes to the exportfs or VFS
interface and I was not sure whether we really need to do that in the kernel or
in the user space
f) open_handle_at now only check for DAC_OVERRIDE capability
Example program:
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cc -D_GNU_SOURCE <src.c>
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
struct file_handle {
int handle_size;
int handle_type;
void *handle;
};
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int ret;
int fd, dirfd;
char buf[100];
struct file_handle fh;
fh.handle_type = 0;
fh.handle = malloc(100);
fh.handle_size = 100;
errno = 0;
ret = syscall(338, argv[1], &fh);
if (ret) {
perror("Error:");
exit(1);
}
dirfd = open("/", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY);
fd = syscall(339, dirfd, &fh, O_RDONLY);
if (fd <= 0 ) {
perror("Error:");
exit(1);
}
memset(buf, 0 , 100);
while (read(fd, buf, 100) > 0) {
printf("%s", buf);
memset(buf, 0 , 100);
}
return 0;
}