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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko.rauhamaa@f-secure.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Filip Štědronský" <r.lkml@regnarg.cz>,
	"Amir Goldstein" <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] fanotify: emit FAN_MODIFY_DIR on filesystem changes
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:18:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k27q4o9w.fsf@drapion.f-secure.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170315133952.GH12989@quack2.suse.cz> (Jan Kara's message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:39:52 +0100")

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>:

> On Wed 15-03-17 10:19:52, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> As for "who (user/process/...) did what", the fanotify API is flawed
>> in that we don't have a CLOSE_WRITE_PERM event. The hit-and-run
>> process is long gone by the time we receive the event. That's more of
>> a rule than an exception.
>
> Adding CLOSE_WRITE_PERM would not be that difficult I assume. What do you
> need it for?

Mainly to hold the process hostage until I have verified the content
change. If I disqualify the content change, I will need to report on the
process. CLOSE_WRITE only gives me a pid that is often stale as it
doesn't block the process.

(Another possibility would be to keep the process around as a zombie as
long as the CLOSE_WRITE event's file descriptor is open. That sounds
more complicated and questionable, though.)


Marko

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-15 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-13 23:02 [RFC 1/2] fanotify: new event FAN_MODIFY_DIR Filip Štědronský
2017-03-13 23:03 ` [RFC 2/2] fanotify: emit FAN_MODIFY_DIR on filesystem changes Filip Štědronský
2017-03-14 11:18   ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-14 14:58     ` Filip Štědronský
2017-03-14 15:35       ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-15  8:19       ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-03-15 13:39         ` Jan Kara
2017-03-15 14:18           ` Marko Rauhamaa [this message]
2017-03-15 14:44           ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-19 10:19     ` Jan Kara
2017-03-19 10:37       ` Filip Štědronský
2017-03-19 18:04         ` Jan Kara
2017-03-20 11:40           ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-20 11:52           ` Filip Štědronský
2017-03-21 15:38       ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-03-21 16:41         ` Jan Kara
2017-03-21 17:45           ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-03-13 23:16 ` [RFC 1/2] fanotify: new event FAN_MODIFY_DIR Filip Štědronský
2017-03-14 10:40   ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-14 13:46     ` Filip Štědronský
2017-03-14 15:07       ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-20 12:10       ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-14 10:11 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-14 12:41   ` Filip Štědronský
2017-03-14 13:55     ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-14 14:48       ` Filip Štědronský
2017-03-14 22:30         ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-15 14:05   ` Jan Kara
2017-03-15 14:34     ` Amir Goldstein
2017-03-16 10:38       ` Jan Kara
2017-03-15  4:52 ` Michael Kerrisk

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