[PATCH v2 4/4] fanotify: support reporting non-decodeable file handles

[Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>]

fanotify users do not always need to decode the file handles reported
with FAN_REPORT_FID.

Relax the restriction that filesystem needs to support NFS export and
allow reporting file handles from filesystems that only support ecoding
unique file handles.

Even filesystems that do not have export_operations at all can fallback
to use the default FILEID_INO32_GEN encoding, but we use the existence
of export_operations as an indication that the encoded file handles will
be sufficiently unique and that user will be able to compare them to
filesystem objects using AT_HANDLE_FID flag to name_to_handle_at(2).

For filesystems that do not support NFS export, users will have to use
the AT_HANDLE_FID of name_to_handle_at(2) if they want to compare the
object in path to the object fid reported in an event.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c      | 4 ++--
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 7 +++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index d1a49f5b6e6d..d2bbf1445a9e 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int fanotify_encode_fh_len(struct inode *inode)
 	if (!inode)
 		return 0;
 
-	exportfs_encode_inode_fh(inode, NULL, &dwords, NULL, 0);
+	exportfs_encode_fid(inode, NULL, &dwords);
 	fh_len = dwords << 2;
 
 	/*
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static int fanotify_encode_fh(struct fanotify_fh *fh, struct inode *inode,
 	}
 
 	dwords = fh_len >> 2;
-	type = exportfs_encode_inode_fh(inode, buf, &dwords, NULL, 0);
+	type = exportfs_encode_fid(inode, buf, &dwords);
 	err = -EINVAL;
 	if (!type || type == FILEID_INVALID || fh_len != dwords << 2)
 		goto out_err;
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 8f430bfad487..e1936e968abb 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -1586,11 +1586,10 @@ static int fanotify_test_fid(struct dentry *dentry)
 	 * We need to make sure that the file system supports at least
 	 * encoding a file handle so user can use name_to_handle_at() to
 	 * compare fid returned with event to the file handle of watched
-	 * objects. However, name_to_handle_at() requires that the
-	 * filesystem also supports decoding file handles.
+	 * objects. However, even the relaxed AT_HANDLE_FID flag requires
+	 * at least empty export_operations for ecoding unique file ids.
 	 */
-	if (!dentry->d_sb->s_export_op ||
-	    !dentry->d_sb->s_export_op->fh_to_dentry)
+	if (!dentry->d_sb->s_export_op)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.34.1