Re: Upcoming: Notifications, FS notifications and fsinfo()

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

The patch makes sense to me, thanks!

In the NFS case it's implementing the "mountpoint" export option:

       mountpoint=path

       mp     This option makes it possible to only export a directory  if  it
              has  successfully  been  mounted.   If  no  path  is given (e.g.
              mountpoint or mp) then the export point must  also  be  a  mount
              point.  If it isn't then the export point is not exported.  This
              allows you to be sure that the directory underneath a mountpoint
              will never be exported by accident if, for example, the filesys‐
              tem failed to mount due to a disc error.

              If a path is given (e.g.  mountpoint=/path or mp=/path) then the
              nominated  path  must  be a mountpoint for the exportpoint to be
              exported.

--b.

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:35:55AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
> Subject: statx: add mount_root
> 
> Determining whether a path or file descriptor refers to a mountpoint (or
> more precisely a mount root) is not trivial using current tools.
> 
> Add a flag to statx that indicates whether the path or fd refers to the
> root of a mount or not.
> 
> Reported-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
> Reported-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/stat.c                 |    3 +++
>  include/uapi/linux/stat.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
> @@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ struct statx {
>  #define STATX_ATTR_NODUMP		0x00000040 /* [I] File is not to be dumped */
>  #define STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED		0x00000800 /* [I] File requires key to decrypt in fs */
>  #define STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT		0x00001000 /* Dir: Automount trigger */
> +#define STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT		0x00002000 /* Root of a mount */
>  #define STATX_ATTR_VERITY		0x00100000 /* [I] Verity protected file */
>  
>  
> --- a/fs/stat.c
> +++ b/fs/stat.c
> @@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ int vfs_statx(int dfd, const char __user
>  	error = vfs_getattr(&path, stat, request_mask, flags);
>  	stat->mnt_id = real_mount(path.mnt)->mnt_id;
>  	stat->result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID;
> +	if (path.mnt->mnt_root = path.dentry)
> +		stat->attributes |= STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT;
> +	stat->attributes_mask |= STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT;
>  	path_put(&path);
>  	if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
>  		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;