Re: [PATCH RFC v2] fhandle: expose u64 mount id to name_to_handle_at(2)

Christian Brauner
2024-05-27T12:22:32Z

On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 02:25:34AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 01:57:32PM -0700, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> > Now that we provide a unique 64-bit mount ID interface in statx, we can
> > now provide a race-free way for name_to_handle_at(2) to provide a file
> > handle and corresponding mount without needing to worry about racing
> > with /proc/mountinfo parsing.
>
> file handles are not tied to mounts, they are tied to super_blocks,
> and they can survive reboots or (less relevant) remounts. This thus
> seems like a very confusing if not wrong interfaces.

I'm not fond of the interface as I've said on an earlier version, but
name_to_handle_at() has always exposed the mount id. IOW, this isn't
adding a new concept to the system call.