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Commit d61fd650 authored by Amir Goldstein's avatar Amir Goldstein Committed by Jan Kara
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fanotify: introduce group flag FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID



FAN_REPORT_FID is ambiguous in that it reports the fid of the child for
some events and the fid of the parent for create/delete/move events.

The new FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID flag is an implicit request to report
the fid of the target object of the operation (a.k.a the child inode)
also in create/delete/move events in addition to the fid of the parent
and the name of the child.

To reduce the test matrix for uninteresting use cases, the new
FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID flag requires both FAN_REPORT_NAME and
FAN_REPORT_FID.  The convenience macro FAN_REPORT_DFID_NAME_TARGET
combines FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID with all the required flags.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129201537.1932819-4-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
parent 1c9007d6
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