fanotify: support limited functionality for unprivileged users
authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Thu, 4 Mar 2021 11:29:21 +0000 (13:29 +0200)
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:55:05 +0000 (16:55 +0100)
commit7cea2a3c505e87a9d6afc78be4a7f7be636a73a7
tree882cbff97b13a3f27259057d04be3bceff17e080
parent5b8fea65d197f408bb00b251c70d842826d6b70b
fanotify: support limited functionality for unprivileged users

Add limited support for unprivileged fanotify groups.
An unprivileged users is not allowed to get an open file descriptor in
the event nor the process pid of another process.  An unprivileged user
cannot request permission events, cannot set mount/filesystem marks and
cannot request unlimited queue/marks.

This enables the limited functionality similar to inotify when watching a
set of files and directories for OPEN/ACCESS/MODIFY/CLOSE events, without
requiring SYS_CAP_ADMIN privileges.

The FAN_REPORT_DFID_NAME init flag, provide a method for an unprivileged
listener watching a set of directories (with FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD) to monitor
all changes inside those directories.

This typically requires that the listener keeps a map of watched directory
fid to dirfd (O_PATH), where fid is obtained with name_to_handle_at()
before starting to watch for changes.

When getting an event, the reported fid of the parent should be resolved
to dirfd and fstatsat(2) with dirfd and name should be used to query the
state of the filesystem entry.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304112921.3996419-3-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
fs/notify/fdinfo.c
include/linux/fanotify.h