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1/*
2 * Filesystem access notification for Linux
3 *
4 * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc., Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
5 */
6
7#ifndef __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H
8#define __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H
9
10#ifdef __KERNEL__
11
12#include <linux/fs.h> /* struct inode */
13#include <linux/list.h>
14#include <linux/path.h> /* struct path */
15#include <linux/spinlock.h>
16#include <linux/types.h>
17
18#include <asm/atomic.h>
19
20/*
21 * IN_* from inotfy.h lines up EXACTLY with FS_*, this is so we can easily
22 * convert between them. dnotify only needs conversion at watch creation
23 * so no perf loss there. fanotify isn't defined yet, so it can use the
24 * wholes if it needs more events.
25 */
26#define FS_ACCESS 0x00000001 /* File was accessed */
27#define FS_MODIFY 0x00000002 /* File was modified */
28#define FS_ATTRIB 0x00000004 /* Metadata changed */
29#define FS_CLOSE_WRITE 0x00000008 /* Writtable file was closed */
30#define FS_CLOSE_NOWRITE 0x00000010 /* Unwrittable file closed */
31#define FS_OPEN 0x00000020 /* File was opened */
32#define FS_MOVED_FROM 0x00000040 /* File was moved from X */
33#define FS_MOVED_TO 0x00000080 /* File was moved to Y */
34#define FS_CREATE 0x00000100 /* Subfile was created */
35#define FS_DELETE 0x00000200 /* Subfile was deleted */
36#define FS_DELETE_SELF 0x00000400 /* Self was deleted */
37#define FS_MOVE_SELF 0x00000800 /* Self was moved */
38
39#define FS_UNMOUNT 0x00002000 /* inode on umount fs */
40#define FS_Q_OVERFLOW 0x00004000 /* Event queued overflowed */
41#define FS_IN_IGNORED 0x00008000 /* last inotify event here */
42
43#define FS_IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */
44#define FS_IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */
45
46#define FS_DN_RENAME 0x10000000 /* file renamed */
47#define FS_DN_MULTISHOT 0x20000000 /* dnotify multishot */
48
49struct fsnotify_group;
50struct fsnotify_event;
51
52/*
53 * Each group much define these ops. The fsnotify infrastructure will call
54 * these operations for each relevant group.
55 *
56 * handle_event - main call for a group to handle an fs event
57 * free_group_priv - called when a group refcnt hits 0 to clean up the private union
58 */
59struct fsnotify_ops {
60 int (*handle_event)(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_event *event);
61 void (*free_group_priv)(struct fsnotify_group *group);
62};
63
64/*
65 * A group is a "thing" that wants to receive notification about filesystem
66 * events. The mask holds the subset of event types this group cares about.
67 * refcnt on a group is up to the implementor and at any moment if it goes 0
68 * everything will be cleaned up.
69 */
70struct fsnotify_group {
71 /*
72 * global list of all groups receiving events from fsnotify.
73 * anchored by fsnotify_groups and protected by either fsnotify_grp_mutex
74 * or fsnotify_grp_srcu depending on write vs read.
75 */
76 struct list_head group_list;
77
78 /*
79 * Defines all of the event types in which this group is interested.
80 * This mask is a bitwise OR of the FS_* events from above. Each time
81 * this mask changes for a group (if it changes) the correct functions
82 * must be called to update the global structures which indicate global
83 * interest in event types.
84 */
85 __u32 mask;
86
87 /*
88 * How the refcnt is used is up to each group. When the refcnt hits 0
89 * fsnotify will clean up all of the resources associated with this group.
90 * As an example, the dnotify group will always have a refcnt=1 and that
91 * will never change. Inotify, on the other hand, has a group per
92 * inotify_init() and the refcnt will hit 0 only when that fd has been
93 * closed.
94 */
95 atomic_t refcnt; /* things with interest in this group */
96 unsigned int group_num; /* simply prevents accidental group collision */
97
98 const struct fsnotify_ops *ops; /* how this group handles things */
99
100 /* prevents double list_del of group_list. protected by global fsnotify_gr_mutex */
101 bool on_group_list;
102
103 /* groups can define private fields here or use the void *private */
104 union {
105 void *private;
106 };
107};
108
109/*
110 * all of the information about the original object we want to now send to
111 * a group. If you want to carry more info from the accessing task to the
112 * listener this structure is where you need to be adding fields.
113 */
114struct fsnotify_event {
115 spinlock_t lock; /* protection for the associated event_holder and private_list */
116 /* to_tell may ONLY be dereferenced during handle_event(). */
117 struct inode *to_tell; /* either the inode the event happened to or its parent */
118 /*
119 * depending on the event type we should have either a path or inode
120 * We hold a reference on path, but NOT on inode. Since we have the ref on
121 * the path, it may be dereferenced at any point during this object's
122 * lifetime. That reference is dropped when this object's refcnt hits
123 * 0. If this event contains an inode instead of a path, the inode may
124 * ONLY be used during handle_event().
125 */
126 union {
127 struct path path;
128 struct inode *inode;
129 };
130/* when calling fsnotify tell it if the data is a path or inode */
131#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE 0
132#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH 1
133#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE 2
134#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE 3
135 int data_type; /* which of the above union we have */
136 atomic_t refcnt; /* how many groups still are using/need to send this event */
137 __u32 mask; /* the type of access, bitwise OR for FS_* event types */
138};
139
140#ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY
141
142/* called from the vfs helpers */
143
144/* main fsnotify call to send events */
145extern void fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, void *data, int data_is);
146
147
148/* called from fsnotify listeners, such as fanotify or dnotify */
149
150/* must call when a group changes its ->mask */
151extern void fsnotify_recalc_global_mask(void);
152/* get a reference to an existing or create a new group */
153extern struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_obtain_group(unsigned int group_num,
154 __u32 mask,
155 const struct fsnotify_ops *ops);
156/* drop reference on a group from fsnotify_obtain_group */
157extern void fsnotify_put_group(struct fsnotify_group *group);
158
159/* take a reference to an event */
160extern void fsnotify_get_event(struct fsnotify_event *event);
161extern void fsnotify_put_event(struct fsnotify_event *event);
162/* find private data previously attached to an event */
163extern struct fsnotify_event_private_data *fsnotify_get_priv_from_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
164 struct fsnotify_event *event);
165
166/* put here because inotify does some weird stuff when destroying watches */
167extern struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_create_event(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask,
168 void *data, int data_is);
169#else
170
171static inline void fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, void *data, int data_is)
172{}
173#endif /* CONFIG_FSNOTIFY */
174
175#endif /* __KERNEL __ */
176
177#endif /* __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H */