From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
LSM <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/18] fsinfo: Provide notification overrun handling support [ver #21]
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 19:23:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e1caad2bff5faf9b24b59fe4ee51df255412cc56.camel@themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegs1NLaamFA12f=EJRN4B3_iC+Uzi2NQKTV-fBSypcufLQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2020-08-05 at 09:45 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 4:46 AM Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> > Coming back to an actual use case.
> >
> > What I said above is one aspect but, since I'm looking at this
> > right
> > now with systemd, and I do have the legacy code to fall back to,
> > the
> > "just reset everything" suggestion does make sense.
> >
> > But I'm struggling to see how I can identify notification buffer
> > overrun in libmount, and overrun is just one possibility for lost
> > notifications, so I like the idea that, as a library user, I can
> > work out that I need to take action based on what I have in the
> > notifications themselves.
>
> Hmm, what's the other possibility for lost notifications?
In user space that is:
Multi-threaded application races, single threaded applications and
signal processing races, other bugs ...
For example systemd has it's own event handling sub-system and handles
half a dozen or so event types of which the mount changes are one. It's
fairly complex so I find myself wondering if I can trust it and
wondering if there are undiscovered bugs in it. The answer to the
former is probably yes but the answer to the later is also probably
yes.
Maybe I just paranoid!
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-05 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-03 13:36 [PATCH 00/18] VFS: Filesystem information [ver #21] David Howells
2020-08-03 13:36 ` [PATCH 01/18] fsinfo: Introduce a non-repeating system-unique superblock ID " David Howells
2020-08-04 9:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-03 13:36 ` [PATCH 02/18] fsinfo: Add fsinfo() syscall to query filesystem information " David Howells
2020-08-04 10:16 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-04 11:34 ` David Howells
2020-08-27 11:27 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-08-03 13:36 ` [PATCH 03/18] fsinfo: Provide a bitmap of the features a filesystem supports " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:37 ` [PATCH 04/18] fsinfo: Allow retrieval of superblock devname, options and stats " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:37 ` [PATCH 05/18] fsinfo: Allow fsinfo() to look up a mount object by ID " David Howells
2020-08-04 10:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-03 13:37 ` [PATCH 06/18] fsinfo: Add a uniquifier ID to struct mount " David Howells
2020-08-04 10:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-04 12:32 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-05 14:13 ` David Howells
2020-08-05 14:46 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-05 15:30 ` David Howells
2020-08-05 19:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-06 5:43 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-03 13:37 ` [PATCH 07/18] fsinfo: Allow mount information to be queried " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:37 ` [PATCH 08/18] fsinfo: Allow mount topology and propagation info to be retrieved " David Howells
2020-08-04 13:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-05 15:37 ` David Howells
2020-08-05 17:19 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-03 13:37 ` [PATCH 09/18] watch_queue: Mount event counters " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:37 ` [PATCH 10/18] fsinfo: Provide notification overrun handling support " David Howells
2020-08-04 13:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-05 2:05 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-05 2:46 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-05 7:45 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-05 11:23 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2020-08-05 11:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-06 1:47 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-05 16:06 ` David Howells
2020-08-05 17:26 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-03 13:37 ` [PATCH 11/18] fsinfo: sample: Mount listing program " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:38 ` [PATCH 12/18] fsinfo: Add API documentation " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:38 ` [PATCH 13/18] fsinfo: Add support for AFS " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:38 ` [PATCH 14/18] fsinfo: Add support to ext4 " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:38 ` [PATCH 15/18] fsinfo: Add an attribute that lists all the visible mounts in a namespace " David Howells
2020-08-04 14:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-05 0:59 ` Ian Kent
2020-08-05 16:44 ` David Howells
2020-08-03 13:38 ` [PATCH 16/18] errseq: add a new errseq_scrape function " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:38 ` [PATCH 17/18] vfs: allow fsinfo to fetch the current state of s_wb_err " David Howells
2020-08-03 13:39 ` [PATCH 18/18] samples: add error state information to test-fsinfo.c " David Howells
2020-08-04 15:39 ` [PATCH 00/18] VFS: Filesystem information " James Bottomley
2020-08-04 19:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-08-05 17:13 ` David Howells
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