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From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 17/22] fsnotify: send MOVE_SELF event with parent/name info
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:57:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxjxHQc9BoWbb8waLKnYGnqPq4pdiYHamTZtJNCJmyZubg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQ4uxjViX_UhSY7KZBf04yqJK8qORP8EisXBvUpnvfoRWmRLg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 5:10 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 4:59 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 4:45 PM Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu 16-07-20 11:42:25, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > > > MOVE_SELF event does not get reported to a parent watching children
> > > > when a child is moved, but it can be reported to sb/mount mark or to
> > > > the moved inode itself with parent/name info if group is interested
> > > > in parent/name info.
> > > >
> > > > Use the fsnotify_parent() helper to send a MOVE_SELF event and adjust
> > > > fsnotify() to handle the case of an event "on child" that should not
> > > > be sent to the watching parent's inode mark.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > What I find strange about this is that the MOVE_SELF event will be reported
> > > to the new parent under the new name (just due to the way how dentry
> > > handling in vfs_rename() works). That seems rather arbitrary and I'm not
> > > sure it would be useful? I guess anybody needing dir info with renames
> > > will rather use FS_MOVED_FROM / FS_MOVED_TO where it is well defined?
> > >
> > > So can we leave FS_MOVE_SELF as one of those cases that doesn't report
> > > parent + name info?
> > >
> >
> > I can live with that.
> > I didn't have a use case for it.
> > This patch may be dropped from the series without affecting the rest.
> >
>
> BTW, I checked my man page and it doesn't say anything about whether
> parent fid and child fid can be reported together with MOVE_SELF.
> The language is generic enough on that part.
>

FYI, I pushed a commit to the LTP branch that adapts the test to MOVE_SELF
that does not report name and tested with this patch reverted.

The test now has less special cases when setting expected values,
which is generally a good sign ;-)

Thanks,
Amir.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-16  8:42 [PATCH v5 00/22] fanotify events with name info Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 01/22] fanotify: generalize the handling of extra event flags Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 02/22] fanotify: generalize merge logic of events on dir Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 03/22] fanotify: distinguish between fid encode error and null fid Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 04/22] fanotify: generalize test for FAN_REPORT_FID Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 05/22] fanotify: mask out special event flags from ignored mask Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 06/22] fanotify: prepare for implicit event flags in mark mask Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 07/22] fanotify: use FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD as implicit flag on sb/mount/non-dir marks Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 08/22] fsnotify: add object type "child" to object type iterator Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 09/22] fanotify: use struct fanotify_info to parcel the variable size buffer Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 10/22] fanotify: no external fh buffer in fanotify_name_event Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 12:44   ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16 13:30     ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 11/22] dnotify: report both events on parent and child with single callback Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 12/22] inotify: " Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 12:52   ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16 14:25     ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 15:17       ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 13/22] fanotify: " Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 14/22] fsnotify: send event to " Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 15/22] fsnotify: send event with parent/name info to sb/mount/non-dir marks Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 17:01   ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16 17:20     ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 17:57       ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16 18:42         ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 22:34           ` Jan Kara
2020-07-17  3:49             ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 16/22] fsnotify: remove check that source dentry is positive Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 13:13   ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16 13:29     ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16 13:54       ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 14:06         ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 17/22] fsnotify: send MOVE_SELF event with parent/name info Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 13:45   ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16 13:59     ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 14:10       ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 15:57         ` Amir Goldstein [this message]
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 18/22] fanotify: add basic support for FAN_REPORT_DIR_FID Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 19/22] fanotify: report events with parent dir fid to sb/mount/non-dir marks Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 20/22] fanotify: add support for FAN_REPORT_NAME Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 21/22] fanotify: report parent fid + name + child fid Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 15:59   ` Jan Kara
2020-07-16 16:08     ` Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16  8:42 ` [PATCH v5 22/22] fanotify: report parent fid " Amir Goldstein
2020-07-16 17:13 ` [PATCH v5 00/22] fanotify events with name info Jan Kara

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