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Legacy inotify/fanotify listeners can add watches for events on inode, parent or mount and expect to get events (e.g. FS_MODIFY) on files that were already open at the time of setting up the watches. fanotify permission events are typically used by Anti-malware sofware, that is watching the entire mount and it is not common to have more that one Anti-malware engine installed on a system. To reduce the overhead of the fsnotify_file_perm() hooks on every file access, relax the semantics of the legacy FAN_ACCESS_PERM event to generate events only if there were *any* permission event listeners on the filesystem at the time that the file was opened. The new semantic is implemented by extending the FMODE_NONOTIFY bit into two FMODE_NONOTIFY_* bits, that are used to store a mode for which of the events types to report. This is going to apply to the new fanotify pre-content events in order to reduce the cost of the new pre-content event vfs hooks. [Thanks to Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de> for reporting a bug in this code with CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS disabled] Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAHk-=wj8L=mtcRTi=NECHMGfZQgXOp_uix1YVh04fEmrKaMnXA@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5ea5f8e283d1edb55aa79c35187bfe344056af14.1731684329.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.