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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:55:26 +0100
From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC: Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] ftruncate, truncate: create fanotify events
On 11.11.2014 12:09, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 10-11-14 23:34:15, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:30:29PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> So what I somewhat dislike about this patch is that notify_change() is
>>> sometimes called with dentry and sometimes with path. That way it's not
>>> completely clear when fanotify events will be generated and when not.
No. With my patch notify_change is still only called with dentry.
It is only new function notify_change_path which will be called with a path.
And this function will only be called from do_truncate up to now.
>>> Sadly it isn't easy to provide struct path in all the places where we are
>>> calling notify_change() so I'm not sure what would a better solution look
>>> like either :(
We only want to create FAN_MODIFY events for ATTR_SIZE. So only for
these events we need a path.
To my knowledge notify_change is called with ATTR_SIZE from
do_truncate(), ecryptfs_truncate() and will be called with ATTR_SIZE
from ovl_setattr() for a truncation.
ecryptfs_dentry_to_lower_path() could be used in ecryptfs_truncate() to
obtain a path.
ovl_path_upper() could be used in ovl_setattr() to obtain a path.
>>
>> I suspect the right thing to do is to split out the truncate path
>> from notify_change, as it's fairly different anyway.
> Yeah, that would make sense. I wanted to say it's quite a lot of work to
> change all the filesystems (where the separation of truncate path makes
> sense as well IMHO) but actually it's possible to just do the separation at
> the VFS level and still call ->setattr() fs callback for now. Heinrich will
> you look into this?
You seem to agree that struct path has to passed to do_truncate() and
further to the notification layer.
Currently do_truncate() calls notify_change() which does not accept a
path argument.
Here the size change is implemented as an attribute change.
Furthermore time attributes are changed.
What do you exactly mean by
> just do the separation at the virtual file system level
> and still call ->setattr() fs callback for now.
Do you want to duplicate the logic of notify_change() to a
new function notify_truncate() which will at least have to handle
ATTR_SIZE, ATTR_FORCE, ATTR_KILL_SUID, ATTR_KILL_SGID, ATTR_FILE and
time attributes?
And from notify_truncate() call new function fsnotify_truncate() with a
logic like fsnotify_modify() but accepting a path?
This would result in a lot of code duplication.
In which respect would such a patch be preferable?
Best regards
Heinrich Schuchardt
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