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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2017-01-31 19:46:22 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-03-03 04:51:15 +0300
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statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
Add a system call to make extended file information available, including file creation and some attribute flags where available through the underlying filesystem. The getattr inode operation is altered to take two additional arguments: a u32 request_mask and an unsigned int flags that indicate the synchronisation mode. This change is propagated to the vfs_getattr*() function. Functions like vfs_stat() are now inline wrappers around new functions vfs_statx() and vfs_statx_fd() to reduce stack usage. ======== OVERVIEW ======== The idea was initially proposed as a set of xattrs that could be retrieved with getxattr(), but the general preference proved to be for a new syscall with an extended stat structure. A number of requests were gathered for features to be included. The following have been included: (1) Make the fields a consistent size on all arches and make them large. (2) Spare space, request flags and information flags are provided for future expansion. (3) Better support for the y2038 problem [Arnd Bergmann] (tv_sec is an __s64). (4) Creation time: The SMB protocol carries the creation time, which could be exported by Samba, which will in turn help CIFS make use of FS-Cache as that can be used for coherency data (stx_btime). This is also specified in NFSv4 as a recommended attribute and could be exported by NFSD [Steve French]. (5) Lightweight stat: Ask for just those details of interest, and allow a netfs (such as NFS) to approximate anything not of interest, possibly without going to the server [Trond Myklebust, Ulrich Drepper, Andreas Dilger] (AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC). (6) Heavyweight stat: Force a netfs to go to the server, even if it thinks its cached attributes are up to date [Trond Myklebust] (AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC). And the following have been left out for future extension: (7) Data version number: Could be used by userspace NFS servers [Aneesh Kumar]. Can also be used to modify fill_post_wcc() in NFSD which retrieves i_version directly, but has just called vfs_getattr(). It could get it from the kstat struct if it used vfs_xgetattr() instead. (There's disagreement on the exact semantics of a single field, since not all filesystems do this the same way). (8) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such as creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen) [Jeremy Allison, Bernd Schubert]. (9) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS servers [Bernd Schubert]. (This was asked for but later deemed unnecessary with the open-by-handle capability available and caused disagreement as to whether it's a security hole or not). (10) Extra coherency data may be useful in making backups [Andreas Dilger]. (No particular data were offered, but things like last backup timestamp, the data version number and the DOS archive bit would come into this category). (11) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A filesystem can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if that isn't available, so if, for instance, inode numbers or UIDs don't exist or are fabricated locally... (This requires a separate system call - I have an fsinfo() call idea for this). (12) Store a 16-byte volume ID in the superblock that can be returned in struct xstat [Steve French]. (Deferred to fsinfo). (13) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French]. (Deferred to fsinfo). (14) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value. These could be translated to BSD's st_flags. Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4 define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too). (Some attributes are made available in stx_attributes, but the general feeling was that the IOC flags were to ext[234]-specific and shouldn't be exposed through statx this way). (15) Mask of features available on file (eg: ACLs, seclabel) [Brad Boyer, Michael Kerrisk]. (Deferred, probably to fsinfo. Finding out if there's an ACL or seclabal might require extra filesystem operations). (16) Femtosecond-resolution timestamps [Dave Chinner]. (A __reserved field has been left in the statx_timestamp struct for this - if there proves to be a need). (17) A set multiple attributes syscall to go with this. =============== NEW SYSTEM CALL =============== The new system call is: int ret = statx(int dfd, const char *filename, unsigned int flags, unsigned int mask, struct statx *buffer); The dfd, filename and flags parameters indicate the file to query, in a similar way to fstatat(). There is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be emulated with statx() by passing AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags. There is also no equivalent of fstat() as that can be emulated by passing a NULL filename to statx() with the fd of interest in dfd. Whether or not statx() synchronises the attributes with the backing store can be controlled by OR'ing a value into the flags argument (this typically only affects network filesystems): (1) AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT tells statx() to behave as stat() does in this respect. (2) AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC will require a network filesystem to synchronise its attributes with the server - which might require data writeback to occur to get the timestamps correct. (3) AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC will suppress synchronisation with the server in a network filesystem. The resulting values should be considered approximate. mask is a bitmask indicating the fields in struct statx that are of interest to the caller. The user should set this to STATX_BASIC_STATS to get the basic set returned by stat(). It should be noted that asking for more information may entail extra I/O operations. buffer points to the destination for the data. This must be 256 bytes in size. ====================== MAIN ATTRIBUTES RECORD ====================== The following structures are defined in which to return the main attribute set: struct statx_timestamp { __s64 tv_sec; __s32 tv_nsec; __s32 __reserved; }; struct statx { __u32 stx_mask; __u32 stx_blksize; __u64 stx_attributes; __u32 stx_nlink; __u32 stx_uid; __u32 stx_gid; __u16 stx_mode; __u16 __spare0[1]; __u64 stx_ino; __u64 stx_size; __u64 stx_blocks; __u64 __spare1[1]; struct statx_timestamp stx_atime; struct statx_timestamp stx_btime; struct statx_timestamp stx_ctime; struct statx_timestamp stx_mtime; __u32 stx_rdev_major; __u32 stx_rdev_minor; __u32 stx_dev_major; __u32 stx_dev_minor; __u64 __spare2[14]; }; The defined bits in request_mask and stx_mask are: STATX_TYPE Want/got stx_mode & S_IFMT STATX_MODE Want/got stx_mode & ~S_IFMT STATX_NLINK Want/got stx_nlink STATX_UID Want/got stx_uid STATX_GID Want/got stx_gid STATX_ATIME Want/got stx_atime{,_ns} STATX_MTIME Want/got stx_mtime{,_ns} STATX_CTIME Want/got stx_ctime{,_ns} STATX_INO Want/got stx_ino STATX_SIZE Want/got stx_size STATX_BLOCKS Want/got stx_blocks STATX_BASIC_STATS [The stuff in the normal stat struct] STATX_BTIME Want/got stx_btime{,_ns} STATX_ALL [All currently available stuff] stx_btime is the file creation time, stx_mask is a bitmask indicating the data provided and __spares*[] are where as-yet undefined fields can be placed. Time fields are structures with separate seconds and nanoseconds fields plus a reserved field in case we want to add even finer resolution. Note that times will be negative if before 1970; in such a case, the nanosecond fields will also be negative if not zero. The bits defined in the stx_attributes field convey information about a file, how it is accessed, where it is and what it does. The following attributes map to FS_*_FL flags and are the same numerical value: STATX_ATTR_COMPRESSED File is compressed by the fs STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE File is marked immutable STATX_ATTR_APPEND File is append-only STATX_ATTR_NODUMP File is not to be dumped STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED File requires key to decrypt in fs Within the kernel, the supported flags are listed by: KSTAT_ATTR_FS_IOC_FLAGS [Are any other IOC flags of sufficient general interest to be exposed through this interface?] New flags include: STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT Object is an automount trigger These are for the use of GUI tools that might want to mark files specially, depending on what they are. Fields in struct statx come in a number of classes: (0) stx_dev_*, stx_blksize. These are local system information and are always available. (1) stx_mode, stx_nlinks, stx_uid, stx_gid, stx_[amc]time, stx_ino, stx_size, stx_blocks. These will be returned whether the caller asks for them or not. The corresponding bits in stx_mask will be set to indicate whether they actually have valid values. If the caller didn't ask for them, then they may be approximated. For example, NFS won't waste any time updating them from the server, unless as a byproduct of updating something requested. If the values don't actually exist for the underlying object (such as UID or GID on a DOS file), then the bit won't be set in the stx_mask, even if the caller asked for the value. In such a case, the returned value will be a fabrication. Note that there are instances where the type might not be valid, for instance Windows reparse points. (2) stx_rdev_*. This will be set only if stx_mode indicates we're looking at a blockdev or a chardev, otherwise will be 0. (3) stx_btime. Similar to (1), except this will be set to 0 if it doesn't exist. ======= TESTING ======= The following test program can be used to test the statx system call: samples/statx/test-statx.c Just compile and run, passing it paths to the files you want to examine. The file is built automatically if CONFIG_SAMPLES is enabled. Here's some example output. Firstly, an NFS directory that crosses to another FSID. Note that the AUTOMOUNT attribute is set because transiting this directory will cause d_automount to be invoked by the VFS. [root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx -A /warthog/data statx(/warthog/data) = 0 results=7ff Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 1048576 directory Device: 00:26 Inode: 1703937 Links: 125 Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: 0 Gid: 4041 Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000 Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Attributes: 0000000000001000 (-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ---m---- --------) Secondly, the result of automounting on that directory. [root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx /warthog/data statx(/warthog/data) = 0 results=7ff Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 1048576 directory Device: 00:27 Inode: 2 Links: 125 Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: 0 Gid: 4041 Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000 Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000 Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
index 7fec7e36d921..51a6b86e3700 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/stat.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#ifndef _UAPI_LINUX_STAT_H
#define _UAPI_LINUX_STAT_H
+#include <linux/types.h>
#if defined(__KERNEL__) || !defined(__GLIBC__) || (__GLIBC__ < 2)
@@ -41,5 +42,135 @@
#endif
+/*
+ * Timestamp structure for the timestamps in struct statx.
+ *
+ * tv_sec holds the number of seconds before (negative) or after (positive)
+ * 00:00:00 1st January 1970 UTC.
+ *
+ * tv_nsec holds a number of nanoseconds before (0..-999,999,999 if tv_sec is
+ * negative) or after (0..999,999,999 if tv_sec is positive) the tv_sec time.
+ *
+ * Note that if both tv_sec and tv_nsec are non-zero, then the two values must
+ * either be both positive or both negative.
+ *
+ * __reserved is held in case we need a yet finer resolution.
+ */
+struct statx_timestamp {
+ __s64 tv_sec;
+ __s32 tv_nsec;
+ __s32 __reserved;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Structures for the extended file attribute retrieval system call
+ * (statx()).
+ *
+ * The caller passes a mask of what they're specifically interested in as a
+ * parameter to statx(). What statx() actually got will be indicated in
+ * st_mask upon return.
+ *
+ * For each bit in the mask argument:
+ *
+ * - if the datum is not supported:
+ *
+ * - the bit will be cleared, and
+ *
+ * - the datum will be set to an appropriate fabricated value if one is
+ * available (eg. CIFS can take a default uid and gid), otherwise
+ *
+ * - the field will be cleared;
+ *
+ * - otherwise, if explicitly requested:
+ *
+ * - the datum will be synchronised to the server if AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC is
+ * set or if the datum is considered out of date, and
+ *
+ * - the field will be filled in and the bit will be set;
+ *
+ * - otherwise, if not requested, but available in approximate form without any
+ * effort, it will be filled in anyway, and the bit will be set upon return
+ * (it might not be up to date, however, and no attempt will be made to
+ * synchronise the internal state first);
+ *
+ * - otherwise the field and the bit will be cleared before returning.
+ *
+ * Items in STATX_BASIC_STATS may be marked unavailable on return, but they
+ * will have values installed for compatibility purposes so that stat() and
+ * co. can be emulated in userspace.
+ */
+struct statx {
+ /* 0x00 */
+ __u32 stx_mask; /* What results were written [uncond] */
+ __u32 stx_blksize; /* Preferred general I/O size [uncond] */
+ __u64 stx_attributes; /* Flags conveying information about the file [uncond] */
+ /* 0x10 */
+ __u32 stx_nlink; /* Number of hard links */
+ __u32 stx_uid; /* User ID of owner */
+ __u32 stx_gid; /* Group ID of owner */
+ __u16 stx_mode; /* File mode */
+ __u16 __spare0[1];
+ /* 0x20 */
+ __u64 stx_ino; /* Inode number */
+ __u64 stx_size; /* File size */
+ __u64 stx_blocks; /* Number of 512-byte blocks allocated */
+ __u64 __spare1[1];
+ /* 0x40 */
+ struct statx_timestamp stx_atime; /* Last access time */
+ struct statx_timestamp stx_btime; /* File creation time */
+ struct statx_timestamp stx_ctime; /* Last attribute change time */
+ struct statx_timestamp stx_mtime; /* Last data modification time */
+ /* 0x80 */
+ __u32 stx_rdev_major; /* Device ID of special file [if bdev/cdev] */
+ __u32 stx_rdev_minor;
+ __u32 stx_dev_major; /* ID of device containing file [uncond] */
+ __u32 stx_dev_minor;
+ /* 0x90 */
+ __u64 __spare2[14]; /* Spare space for future expansion */
+ /* 0x100 */
+};
+
+/*
+ * Flags to be stx_mask
+ *
+ * Query request/result mask for statx() and struct statx::stx_mask.
+ *
+ * These bits should be set in the mask argument of statx() to request
+ * particular items when calling statx().
+ */
+#define STATX_TYPE 0x00000001U /* Want/got stx_mode & S_IFMT */
+#define STATX_MODE 0x00000002U /* Want/got stx_mode & ~S_IFMT */
+#define STATX_NLINK 0x00000004U /* Want/got stx_nlink */
+#define STATX_UID 0x00000008U /* Want/got stx_uid */
+#define STATX_GID 0x00000010U /* Want/got stx_gid */
+#define STATX_ATIME 0x00000020U /* Want/got stx_atime */
+#define STATX_MTIME 0x00000040U /* Want/got stx_mtime */
+#define STATX_CTIME 0x00000080U /* Want/got stx_ctime */
+#define STATX_INO 0x00000100U /* Want/got stx_ino */
+#define STATX_SIZE 0x00000200U /* Want/got stx_size */
+#define STATX_BLOCKS 0x00000400U /* Want/got stx_blocks */
+#define STATX_BASIC_STATS 0x000007ffU /* The stuff in the normal stat struct */
+#define STATX_BTIME 0x00000800U /* Want/got stx_btime */
+#define STATX_ALL 0x00000fffU /* All currently supported flags */
+
+/*
+ * Attributes to be found in stx_attributes
+ *
+ * These give information about the features or the state of a file that might
+ * be of use to ordinary userspace programs such as GUIs or ls rather than
+ * specialised tools.
+ *
+ * Note that the flags marked [I] correspond to generic FS_IOC_FLAGS
+ * semantically. Where possible, the numerical value is picked to correspond
+ * also.
+ */
+#define STATX_ATTR_COMPRESSED 0x00000004 /* [I] File is compressed by the fs */
+#define STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE 0x00000010 /* [I] File is marked immutable */
+#define STATX_ATTR_APPEND 0x00000020 /* [I] File is append-only */
+#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 */
+
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_STAT_H */