On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:31 AM Christian Brauner
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 06:56:24PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:

quoted

Add a high level hook fsnotify_path_create() which is called from
syscall context where mount context is available, so that FAN_CREATE
event can be added to a mount mark mask.

This high level hook is called in addition to fsnotify_create(),
fsnotify_mkdir() and fsnotify_link() hooks in vfs helpers where the mount
context is not available.

In the context where fsnotify_path_create() will be called, a dentry flag
flag is set on the new dentry the suppress the FS_CREATE event in the vfs
level hooks.

This functionality was requested by Christian Brauner to replace
recursive inotify watches for detecting when some path was created under
an idmapped mount without having to monitor FAN_CREATE events in the
entire filesystem.

In combination with more changes to allow unprivileged fanotify listener
to watch an idmapped mount, this functionality would be usable also by
nested container managers.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210318143140.jxycfn3fpqntq34z@wittgenstein/ (local)
Cc: Christian Brauner <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
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Was about to look at this. Does this require preliminary patches since
it doesn't apply to current master. If so, can you just give me a link
to a branch so I can pull from that? :)

The patch is less useful on its own.
Better take the entire work for the demo which includes this patch:

[1] https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/fanotify_userns
[2] https://github.com/amir73il/inotify-tools/commits/fanotify_userns

Thanks,
Amir.