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Support more filesystems with FAN_REPORT_FID

From:  Amir Goldstein <amir73il-AT-gmail.com>
To:  Christian Brauner <brauner-AT-kernel.org>
Subject:  [PATCH v2 0/4] Support more filesystems with FAN_REPORT_FID
Date:  Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:07:57 +0300
Message-ID:  <20231023180801.2953446-1-amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc:  Al Viro <viro-AT-zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack-AT-suse.cz>, Jeff Layton <jlayton-AT-kernel.org>, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever-AT-oracle.com>, linux-fsdevel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs-AT-vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:  Article

Christian,

The grand plan is to be able to use fanotify with FAN_REPORT_FID as a
drop-in replacement for inotify, but with current upstream, inotify is
supported on all the filesystems and FAN_REPORT_FID only on a few.

Making all filesystem support FAN_REPORT_FID requires that all
filesystems will:
1. Support for AT_HANDLE_FID file handles
2. Report non-zero f_fsid

This patch set takes care of the first requirement.
Patches were reviewed by Jan and the nfsd maintainers.

I have another patch in review [2] for adding non-zero f_fsid to many
simple filesystems, but it is independent of this patch set, so no
reason to couple them together.

Note that patch #2 touches many filesystems due to vfs API change,
requiring an explicit ->encode_fh() method. I did not gets ACKs from
all filesystem maintainers, but the change is trivial and does not
change any logic.

Thanks,
Amir.

Changes since v1 [1]:
- Patch #1 already merged into v6.6-rc7
- Fix build without CONFIG_EXPORTFS
- Fix checkpatch warnings
- Define symbolic constant for FILEID_INO64_GEN_LEN
- Clarify documentation (units of) max_len argument

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231018100000.2453965-1-amir73...
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023143049.2944970-1-amir73...

Amir Goldstein (4):
  exportfs: add helpers to check if filesystem can encode/decode file
    handles
  exportfs: make ->encode_fh() a mandatory method for NFS export
  exportfs: define FILEID_INO64_GEN* file handle types
  exportfs: support encoding non-decodeable file handles by default

 Documentation/filesystems/nfs/exporting.rst |  7 +--
 Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst       |  9 ++++
 fs/affs/namei.c                             |  1 +
 fs/befs/linuxvfs.c                          |  1 +
 fs/efs/super.c                              |  1 +
 fs/erofs/super.c                            |  1 +
 fs/exportfs/expfs.c                         | 54 +++++++++++++++------
 fs/ext2/super.c                             |  1 +
 fs/ext4/super.c                             |  1 +
 fs/f2fs/super.c                             |  1 +
 fs/fat/nfs.c                                |  1 +
 fs/fhandle.c                                |  6 +--
 fs/fuse/inode.c                             |  7 +--
 fs/jffs2/super.c                            |  1 +
 fs/jfs/super.c                              |  1 +
 fs/nfsd/export.c                            |  3 +-
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c          |  4 +-
 fs/ntfs/namei.c                             |  1 +
 fs/ntfs3/super.c                            |  1 +
 fs/overlayfs/util.c                         |  2 +-
 fs/smb/client/export.c                      | 11 ++---
 fs/squashfs/export.c                        |  1 +
 fs/ufs/super.c                              |  1 +
 include/linux/exportfs.h                    | 51 ++++++++++++++++++-
 24 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

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