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statx: add mount_root 

Determining whether a path or file descriptor refers to a mountpoint (or
more precisely a mount root) is not trivial using current tools.

Add a flag to statx that indicates whether the path or fd refers to the
root of a mount or not.

Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Reported-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Miklos Szeredi 2020-05-14 16:44:24 +02:00
parent fa2fcf4f1d
commit 80340fe360
2 changed files with 4 additions and 0 deletions
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fs/stat.c
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@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ retry:
error = vfs_getattr(&path, stat, request_mask, flags);
stat->mnt_id = real_mount(path.mnt)->mnt_id;
stat->result_mask |= STATX_MNT_ID;
if (path.mnt->mnt_root == path.dentry)
stat->attributes |= STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT;
stat->attributes_mask |= STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT;
path_put(&path);
if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;

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include/uapi/linux/stat.h
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@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ struct statx {
#define STATX_ATTR_NODUMP 0x00000040 /* [I] File is not to be dumped */
#define STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED 0x00000800 /* [I] File requires key to decrypt in fs */
#define STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT 0x00001000 /* Dir: Automount trigger */
#define STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT 0x00002000 /* Root of a mount */
#define STATX_ATTR_VERITY 0x00100000 /* [I] Verity protected file */