RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fanotify Ignore mask

Nilesh Awate
2020-03-23T13:34:59Z

Hi Jan, Amir -

Thank you for quick respond!

Yes with mount --bind /opt /opt and then adding ignore mask it works as expected.

Regards,
Nilesh

-----Original Message-----
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 6:34 PM
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Nilesh Awate <Nilesh.Awate@microsoft.com>; linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fanotify Ignore mask

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:57 PM Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Nilesh!
>
> On Sun 22-03-20 17:50:50, Nilesh Awate wrote:
> > I'm new to Fanotify. I'm approaching you because I see that you have done great work in Fanotify subsystem.
> >
> > I've a trivial query. How can we ignore events from a directory, If we have mark "/" as mount.
> >
> > fd = fanotify_init(FAN_CLOEXEC | FAN_CLASS_CONTENT | FAN_NONBLOCK,
> > O_RDONLY | O_LARGEFILE);
> >
> > ret = fanotify_mark(fd, FAN_MARK_ADD | FAN_MARK_MOUNT, FAN_OPEN_PERM | FAN_CLOSE_WRITE,
> > AT_FDCWD, "/") ;
> >
> > Now I don't want events from "/opt" directory is it possible to ignore all events from /opt directory.
> >
> > I see examples from
> > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgi
> > thub.com%2Flinux-test-project%2Fltp%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Ftestcases%2Fke
> > rnel%2Fsyscalls%2Ffanotify%2Ffanotify01.c&amp;data=02%7C01%7CNilesh.
> > Awate%40microsoft.com%7C6393ffac541a4e2ce0db08d7cf2aba87%7C72f988bf8
> > 6f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637205655195489406&amp;sdata=z8TmM
> > 5yVBC5hd%2FegNkxu%2FVaTqJ9kTEoflyXdEmFo0nc%3D&amp;reserved=0
> > But they all taking about a file. Could you pls help me here.
>
> There's no way how you could 'ignore' events in the whole directory,
> let alone even the whole subtree under a directory which you seem to imply.
> Ignore mask really only work for avoiding generating events from
> individual files. Any more sophisticated filtering needs to happen in
> userspace after getting the events from the kernel.

There is no way so set an 'ignore' mask, but it is possible to use the fact that the mark is a 'mount' mark.
By mounting a bind mount over /opt (mount -o bind /opt /opt) operations within the /opt subtree (if performed from this mount ns and with path lookup done after mounting the bind mount), will not generate events to the mount mark on /.

Thanks,
Amir.