vfs: expose delegation support to userland
authorJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:12:58 +0000 (09:12 -0500)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:38:37 +0000 (09:38 +0100)
commit1602bad16d7df82faca6d7c70821117684a66f49
tree958ba87ee9d2c760efeb85c90487b82dbaeac0c4
parent8b99f6a8c116f664a6788737705f6da2772cc96a
vfs: expose delegation support to userland

Now that support for recallable directory delegations is available,
expose this functionality to userland with new F_SETDELEG and F_GETDELEG
commands for fcntl().

Note that this also allows userland to request a FL_DELEG type lease on
files too. Userland applications that do will get signalled when there
are metadata changes in addition to just data changes (which is a
limitation of FL_LEASE leases).

These commands accept a new "struct delegation" argument that contains a
flags field for future expansion.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-17-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
fs/fcntl.c
fs/locks.c
include/linux/filelock.h
include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h