Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] fanotify: define struct members to hold response decision context

[Jan Kara]

On Thu 05-05-22 20:34:06, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > One open question I have is what should the kernel do with 'info_type' in
> > response it does not understand (in the future when there are possibly more
> > different info types). It could just skip it because this should be just
> > additional info for introspection (the only mandatory part is in
> > fanotify_response, however it could surprise userspace that passed info is
> > just getting ignored. To solve this we would have to somewhere report
> > supported info types (maybe in fanotify fdinfo in proc). I guess we'll
> > cross that bridge when we get to it.
> >
> > Amir, what do you think?
> 
> Regardless if and how we provide a way to enumerate supported info types,
> I would prefer to reject (EINVAL) unknown info types.

OK, agreed. I will be also calmer when we do that because then we can be
certain userspace does not pass bogus data for unknown info types.

> We can provide a command FAN_RESPONSE_TEST to write a test response with
> FAN_NOFD and some extra info so the program can test if certain info
> types are supported.

Hum, that would be an option as well. We don't even need the
FAN_RESPONSE_TEST command, do we? The write to fanotify fd for FAN_NOFD fd
would just perform validation of the response and either accept it (do
nothing) or return EINVAL.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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