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Commit 4356d575 authored by Aleksa Sarai's avatar Aleksa Sarai Committed by Christian Brauner
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fhandle: expose u64 mount id to name_to_handle_at(2)


Now that we provide a unique 64-bit mount ID interface in statx(2), 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 or having to open a file just to do
statx(2).

While this is not necessary if you are using AT_EMPTY_PATH and don't
care about an extra statx(2) call, users that pass full paths into
name_to_handle_at(2) need to know which mount the file handle comes from
(to make sure they don't try to open_by_handle_at a file handle from a
different filesystem) and switching to AT_EMPTY_PATH would require
allocating a file for every name_to_handle_at(2) call, turning

  err = name_to_handle_at(-EBADF, "/foo/bar/baz", &handle, &mntid,
                          AT_HANDLE_MNT_ID_UNIQUE);

into

  int fd = openat(-EBADF, "/foo/bar/baz", O_PATH | O_CLOEXEC);
  err1 = name_to_handle_at(fd, "", &handle, &unused_mntid, AT_EMPTY_PATH);
  err2 = statx(fd, "", AT_EMPTY_PATH, STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE, &statxbuf);
  mntid = statxbuf.stx_mnt_id;
  close(fd);

Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240828-exportfs-u64-mount-id-v3-2-10c2c4c16708@cyphar.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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