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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/notify, branch v6.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>fsnotify: use accessor to set FMODE_NONOTIFY_*</title>
<updated>2025-02-07T09:27:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-03T22:32:03+00:00</published>
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The FMODE_NONOTIFY_* bits are a 2-bits mode.  Open coding manipulation
of those bits is risky.  Use an accessor file_set_fsnotify_mode() to
set the mode.

Rename file_set_fsnotify_mode() =&gt; file_set_fsnotify_mode_from_watchers()
to make way for the simple accessor name.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250203223205.861346-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The FMODE_NONOTIFY_* bits are a 2-bits mode.  Open coding manipulation
of those bits is risky.  Use an accessor file_set_fsnotify_mode() to
set the mode.

Rename file_set_fsnotify_mode() =&gt; file_set_fsnotify_mode_from_watchers()
to make way for the simple accessor name.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250203223205.861346-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T12:48:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>joel.granados@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-28T12:48:37+00:00</published>
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Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
    virtual patch

    @
    depends on !(file in "net")
    disable optional_qualifier
    @

    identifier table_name != {
      watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
      iwcm_ctl_table,
      ucma_ctl_table,
      memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
      loadpin_sysctl_table
    };
    @@

    + const
    struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
    sed --in-place \
      -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &amp;uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&amp;uts_kern/" \
      kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt; # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt; # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell &lt;bodonnel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit &lt;ashutosh.dixit@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna.schumaker@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
    virtual patch

    @
    depends on !(file in "net")
    disable optional_qualifier
    @

    identifier table_name != {
      watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
      iwcm_ctl_table,
      ucma_ctl_table,
      memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
      loadpin_sysctl_table
    };
    @@

    + const
    struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
    sed --in-place \
      -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &amp;uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&amp;uts_kern/" \
      kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt; # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt; # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell &lt;bodonnel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit &lt;ashutosh.dixit@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna.schumaker@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2025-01-23T21:36:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T21:36:06+00:00</published>
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Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
 "This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
  generated before a file contents is accessed.

  The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
  kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
  on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
  to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
  which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
  any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
  handler.

  The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
  functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
  the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
  system.

  Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
  been improved and now file-&gt;f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
  needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
  pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file-&gt;f_mode
  check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
  FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
  place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
  now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
  uptodate folio in the page cache.

  Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
  of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
  with the minimal useful feature set"

* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
  fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
  fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
  fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
  ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
  xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
  fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
  fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
  fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
  ...
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Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
 "This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
  generated before a file contents is accessed.

  The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
  kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
  on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
  to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
  which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
  any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
  handler.

  The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
  functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
  the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
  system.

  Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
  been improved and now file-&gt;f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
  needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
  pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file-&gt;f_mode
  check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
  FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
  place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
  now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
  uptodate folio in the page cache.

  Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
  of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
  with the minimal useful feature set"

* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
  fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
  fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
  fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
  ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
  xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
  fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
  fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
  fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2025-01-23T21:10:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T21:10:38+00:00</published>
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Pull inotify update from Jan Kara:
 "A small inotify strcpy() cleanup"

* tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  inotify: Use strscpy() for event-&gt;name copies
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Pull inotify update from Jan Kara:
 "A small inotify strcpy() cleanup"

* tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  inotify: Use strscpy() for event-&gt;name copies
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)</title>
<updated>2025-01-06T11:08:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-06T11:08:42+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The rrror handling in fanotify_init(2) is buggy and overwrites 'fd'
before calling put_unused_fd() leading to possible access beyond the end
of fd bitmap. Fix it.

Reported-by: syzbot+6a3aa63412255587b21b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: ebe559609d78 ("fs: get rid of __FMODE_NONOTIFY kludge")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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The rrror handling in fanotify_init(2) is buggy and overwrites 'fd'
before calling put_unused_fd() leading to possible access beyond the end
of fd bitmap. Fix it.

Reported-by: syzbot+6a3aa63412255587b21b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: ebe559609d78 ("fs: get rid of __FMODE_NONOTIFY kludge")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: relax assertions on failure to encode file handles</title>
<updated>2024-12-19T14:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-19T11:53:01+00:00</published>
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Encoding file handles is usually performed by a filesystem &gt;encode_fh()
method that may fail for various reasons.

The legacy users of exportfs_encode_fh(), namely, nfsd and
name_to_handle_at(2) syscall are ready to cope with the possibility
of failure to encode a file handle.

There are a few other users of exportfs_encode_{fh,fid}() that
currently have a WARN_ON() assertion when -&gt;encode_fh() fails.
Relax those assertions because they are wrong.

The second linked bug report states commit 16aac5ad1fa9 ("ovl: support
encoding non-decodable file handles") in v6.6 as the regressing commit,
but this is not accurate.

The aforementioned commit only increases the chances of the assertion
and allows triggering the assertion with the reproducer using overlayfs,
inotify and drop_caches.

Triggering this assertion was always possible with other filesystems and
other reasons of -&gt;encode_fh() failures and more particularly, it was
also possible with the exact same reproducer using overlayfs that is
mounted with options index=on,nfs_export=on also on kernels &lt; v6.6.
Therefore, I am not listing the aforementioned commit as a Fixes commit.

Backport hint: this patch will have a trivial conflict applying to
v6.6.y, and other trivial conflicts applying to stable kernels &lt; v6.6.

Reported-by: syzbot+ec07f6f5ce62b858579f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+ec07f6f5ce62b858579f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/671fd40c.050a0220.4735a.024f.GAE@google.com/
Reported-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAGrbwDTLt6drB9eaUagnQVgdPBmhLfqqxAf3F+Juqy_o6oP8uw@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241219115301.465396-1-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Encoding file handles is usually performed by a filesystem &gt;encode_fh()
method that may fail for various reasons.

The legacy users of exportfs_encode_fh(), namely, nfsd and
name_to_handle_at(2) syscall are ready to cope with the possibility
of failure to encode a file handle.

There are a few other users of exportfs_encode_{fh,fid}() that
currently have a WARN_ON() assertion when -&gt;encode_fh() fails.
Relax those assertions because they are wrong.

The second linked bug report states commit 16aac5ad1fa9 ("ovl: support
encoding non-decodable file handles") in v6.6 as the regressing commit,
but this is not accurate.

The aforementioned commit only increases the chances of the assertion
and allows triggering the assertion with the reproducer using overlayfs,
inotify and drop_caches.

Triggering this assertion was always possible with other filesystems and
other reasons of -&gt;encode_fh() failures and more particularly, it was
also possible with the exact same reproducer using overlayfs that is
mounted with options index=on,nfs_export=on also on kernels &lt; v6.6.
Therefore, I am not listing the aforementioned commit as a Fixes commit.

Backport hint: this patch will have a trivial conflict applying to
v6.6.y, and other trivial conflicts applying to stable kernels &lt; v6.6.

Reported-by: syzbot+ec07f6f5ce62b858579f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+ec07f6f5ce62b858579f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/671fd40c.050a0220.4735a.024f.GAE@google.com/
Reported-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAGrbwDTLt6drB9eaUagnQVgdPBmhLfqqxAf3F+Juqy_o6oP8uw@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241219115301.465396-1-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inotify: Use strscpy() for event-&gt;name copies</title>
<updated>2024-12-18T10:33:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-16T22:45:15+00:00</published>
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Since we have already allocated "len + 1" space for event-&gt;name, make sure
that name-&gt;name cannot ever accidentally cause a copy overflow by calling
strscpy() instead of the unbounded strcpy() routine. This assists in
the ongoing efforts to remove the unsafe strcpy() API[1] from the kernel.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241216224507.work.859-kees@kernel.org
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Since we have already allocated "len + 1" space for event-&gt;name, make sure
that name-&gt;name cannot ever accidentally cause a copy overflow by calling
strscpy() instead of the unbounded strcpy() routine. This assists in
the ongoing efforts to remove the unsafe strcpy() API[1] from the kernel.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241216224507.work.859-kees@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response</title>
<updated>2024-12-10T11:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-15T15:30:25+00:00</published>
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With FAN_DENY response, user trying to perform the filesystem operation
gets an error with errno set to EPERM.

It is useful for hierarchical storage management (HSM) service to be able
to deny access for reasons more diverse than EPERM, for example EAGAIN,
if HSM could retry the operation later.

Allow fanotify groups with priority FAN_CLASSS_PRE_CONTENT to responsd
to permission events with the response value FAN_DENY_ERRNO(errno),
instead of FAN_DENY to return a custom error.

Limit custom error values to errors expected on read(2)/write(2) and
open(2) of regular files. This list could be extended in the future.
Userspace can test for legitimate values of FAN_DENY_ERRNO(errno) by
writing a response to an fanotify group fd with a value of FAN_NOFD in
the fd field of the response.

The change in fanotify_response is backward compatible, because errno is
written in the high 8 bits of the 32bit response field and old kernels
reject respose value with high bits set.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1e5fb6af84b69ca96b5c849fa5f10bdf4d1dc414.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
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With FAN_DENY response, user trying to perform the filesystem operation
gets an error with errno set to EPERM.

It is useful for hierarchical storage management (HSM) service to be able
to deny access for reasons more diverse than EPERM, for example EAGAIN,
if HSM could retry the operation later.

Allow fanotify groups with priority FAN_CLASSS_PRE_CONTENT to responsd
to permission events with the response value FAN_DENY_ERRNO(errno),
instead of FAN_DENY to return a custom error.

Limit custom error values to errors expected on read(2)/write(2) and
open(2) of regular files. This list could be extended in the future.
Userspace can test for legitimate values of FAN_DENY_ERRNO(errno) by
writing a response to an fanotify group fd with a value of FAN_NOFD in
the fd field of the response.

The change in fanotify_response is backward compatible, because errno is
written in the high 8 bits of the 32bit response field and old kernels
reject respose value with high bits set.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1e5fb6af84b69ca96b5c849fa5f10bdf4d1dc414.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
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<title>fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events</title>
<updated>2024-12-10T11:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-15T15:30:24+00:00</published>
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With group class FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT, report offset and length info
along with FAN_PRE_ACCESS pre-content events.

This information is meant to be used by hierarchical storage managers
that want to fill partial content of files on first access to range.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b90a9e6c809dd3cad5684da90f23ea93ec6ce8c8.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
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With group class FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT, report offset and length info
along with FAN_PRE_ACCESS pre-content events.

This information is meant to be used by hierarchical storage managers
that want to fill partial content of files on first access to range.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b90a9e6c809dd3cad5684da90f23ea93ec6ce8c8.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
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<title>fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event</title>
<updated>2024-12-10T11:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-15T15:30:23+00:00</published>
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Similar to FAN_ACCESS_PERM permission event, but it is only allowed with
class FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT and only allowed on regular files and dirs.

Unlike FAN_ACCESS_PERM, it is safe to write to the file being accessed
in the context of the event handler.

This pre-content event is meant to be used by hierarchical storage
managers that want to fill the content of files on first read access.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b80986f8d5b860acea2c9a73c0acd93587be5fe4.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
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Similar to FAN_ACCESS_PERM permission event, but it is only allowed with
class FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT and only allowed on regular files and dirs.

Unlike FAN_ACCESS_PERM, it is safe to write to the file being accessed
in the context of the event handler.

This pre-content event is meant to be used by hierarchical storage
managers that want to fill the content of files on first read access.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b80986f8d5b860acea2c9a73c0acd93587be5fe4.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
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