From: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] Mount, FS, Block and Keyrings notifications [ver #3]
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:34:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606143420.hxjximmhigpa2nti@brauner.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155981411940.17513.7137844619951358374.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 10:41:59AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>
> Hi Al,
>
> Here's a set of patches to add a general variable-length notification queue
> concept and to add sources of events for:
>
> (1) Mount topology events, such as mounting, unmounting, mount expiry,
> mount reconfiguration.
>
> (2) Superblock events, such as R/W<->R/O changes, quota overrun and I/O
> errors (not complete yet).
>
> (3) Key/keyring events, such as creating, linking and removal of keys.
>
> (4) General device events (single common queue) including:
>
> - Block layer events, such as device errors
>
> - USB subsystem events, such as device/bus attach/remove, device
> reset, device errors.
>
> One of the reasons for this is so that we can remove the issue of processes
> having to repeatedly and regularly scan /proc/mounts, which has proven to
> be a system performance problem. To further aid this, the fsinfo() syscall
> on which this patch series depends, provides a way to access superblock and
> mount information in binary form without the need to parse /proc/mounts.
>
>
> LSM support is included, but controversial:
Apart from the LSM/security controversy here the general direction of
this patchset is pretty well received it seems.
Imho, having a notification mechanism like this is a very good thing for
userspace. So would be great if there'd be a consensus on the LSM bits.
Christian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-06 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-06 9:41 [RFC][PATCH 00/10] Mount, FS, Block and Keyrings notifications [ver #3] David Howells
2019-06-06 9:42 ` [PATCH 01/10] security: Override creds in __fput() with last fputter's creds " David Howells
2019-06-06 14:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-06 15:06 ` David Howells
2019-06-06 17:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-06 19:09 ` Casey Schaufler
2019-06-06 19:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-06 9:42 ` [PATCH 02/10] General notification queue with user mmap()'able ring buffer " David Howells
2019-06-06 9:42 ` [PATCH 03/10] keys: Add a notification facility " David Howells
2019-06-06 9:42 ` [PATCH 04/10] vfs: Add a mount-notification " David Howells
2019-06-06 9:42 ` [PATCH 05/10] vfs: Add superblock notifications " David Howells
2019-06-06 9:42 ` [PATCH 06/10] fsinfo: Export superblock notification counter " David Howells
2019-06-06 9:43 ` [PATCH 07/10] Add a general, global device notification watch list " David Howells
2019-06-06 9:43 ` [PATCH 08/10] block: Add block layer notifications " David Howells
2019-06-06 9:43 ` [PATCH 09/10] usb: Add USB subsystem " David Howells
2019-06-06 14:24 ` Alan Stern
2019-06-06 14:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-06 14:55 ` Alan Stern
2019-06-06 15:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-07 6:40 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-06-07 14:01 ` Alan Stern
2019-06-11 6:28 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-06-11 13:53 ` Alan Stern
2019-06-12 6:58 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-06-06 9:43 ` [PATCH 10/10] Add sample notification program " David Howells
2019-06-06 21:21 ` Eugeniu Rosca
2019-06-06 22:52 ` David Howells
2019-06-07 14:37 ` David Howells
2019-06-06 12:32 ` [RFC][PATCH 00/10] Mount, FS, Block and Keyrings notifications " Stephen Smalley
2019-06-06 13:16 ` David Howells
2019-06-06 14:05 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-06-06 16:43 ` Casey Schaufler
2019-06-06 17:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-06 18:33 ` Casey Schaufler
2019-06-06 18:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-06 17:16 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-06-06 18:56 ` Casey Schaufler
2019-06-06 19:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-06 21:17 ` David Howells
2019-06-06 21:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-06 22:38 ` David Howells
2019-06-06 22:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-06 22:50 ` David Howells
2019-06-06 14:34 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
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