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| author | Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> | 2024-11-15 10:30:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2024-12-10 12:03:12 +0100 |
| commit | a94204f4d48e28a711b7ed10399f749286c433e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 8235a9dd4b7f638490917e2499f686e7003e9f56 /fs/open.c | |
| parent | ebe559609d7829b52c6642b581860760984faf9d (diff) | |
fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
Legacy inotify/fanotify listeners can add watches for events on inode,
parent or mount and expect to get events (e.g. FS_MODIFY) on files that
were already open at the time of setting up the watches.
fanotify permission events are typically used by Anti-malware sofware,
that is watching the entire mount and it is not common to have more that
one Anti-malware engine installed on a system.
To reduce the overhead of the fsnotify_file_perm() hooks on every file
access, relax the semantics of the legacy FAN_ACCESS_PERM event to generate
events only if there were *any* permission event listeners on the
filesystem at the time that the file was opened.
The new semantic is implemented by extending the FMODE_NONOTIFY bit into
two FMODE_NONOTIFY_* bits, that are used to store a mode for which of the
events types to report.
This is going to apply to the new fanotify pre-content events in order
to reduce the cost of the new pre-content event vfs hooks.
[Thanks to Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de> for reporting a bug in this
code with CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS disabled]
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAHk-=wj8L=mtcRTi=NECHMGfZQgXOp_uix1YVh04fEmrKaMnXA@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5ea5f8e283d1edb55aa79c35187bfe344056af14.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/open.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/open.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index c3490286092e..1a9483872e1f 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f, f->f_sb_err = file_sample_sb_err(f); if (unlikely(f->f_flags & O_PATH)) { - f->f_mode = FMODE_PATH | FMODE_OPENED; + f->f_mode = FMODE_PATH | FMODE_OPENED | FMODE_NONOTIFY; f->f_op = &empty_fops; return 0; } @@ -929,6 +929,12 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f, if (error) goto cleanup_all; + /* + * Set FMODE_NONOTIFY_* bits according to existing permission watches. + * If FMODE_NONOTIFY was already set for an fanotify fd, this doesn't + * change anything. + */ + file_set_fsnotify_mode(f); error = fsnotify_open_perm(f); if (error) goto cleanup_all; |