fanotify: ignore events on directories unless specifically requested

fanotify has a very limited number of events it sends on directories.  The
usefulness of these events is yet to be seen and still we send them.  This
is particularly painful for mount marks where one might receive many of
these useless events.  As such this patch will drop events on IS_DIR()
inodes unless they were explictly requested with FAN_ON_DIR.

This means that a mark on a directory without FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD or
FAN_ON_DIR is meaningless and will result in no events ever (although it
will still be allowed since detecting it is hard)

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index 8d98e1f..b04f88e 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ static int fanotify_handle_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(FAN_Q_OVERFLOW != FS_Q_OVERFLOW);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(FAN_OPEN_PERM != FS_OPEN_PERM);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(FAN_ACCESS_PERM != FS_ACCESS_PERM);
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(FAN_ONDIR != FS_ISDIR);
 
 	pr_debug("%s: group=%p event=%p\n", __func__, group, event);
 
@@ -195,6 +196,10 @@ static bool fanotify_should_send_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 		BUG();
 	}
 
+	if (S_ISDIR(path->dentry->d_inode->i_mode) &&
+	    (marks_ignored_mask & FS_ISDIR))
+		return false;
+
 	if (event_mask & marks_mask & ~marks_ignored_mask)
 		return true;
 
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index a7d9369..ff1a908 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -570,6 +570,12 @@ static __u32 fanotify_mark_add_to_mask(struct fsnotify_mark *fsn_mark,
 		if (flags & FAN_MARK_IGNORED_SURV_MODIFY)
 			fsn_mark->flags |= FSNOTIFY_MARK_FLAG_IGNORED_SURV_MODIFY;
 	}
+
+	if (!(flags & FAN_MARK_ONDIR)) {
+		__u32 tmask = fsn_mark->ignored_mask | FAN_ONDIR;
+		fsnotify_set_mark_ignored_mask_locked(fsn_mark, tmask);
+	}
+
 	spin_unlock(&fsn_mark->lock);
 
 	return mask & ~oldmask;
@@ -766,6 +772,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(fanotify_mark)(int fanotify_fd, unsigned int flags,
 	default:
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
+
+	if (mask & FAN_ONDIR) {
+		flags |= FAN_MARK_ONDIR;
+		mask &= ~FAN_ONDIR;
+	}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS
 	if (mask & ~(FAN_ALL_EVENTS | FAN_ALL_PERM_EVENTS | FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD))
 #else