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: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240828-exportfs-u64-mount-id-v3-2-10c2c4c16708@cyphar.comReviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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