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    fanotify: support reporting non-decodeable file handles · a95aef69
    Amir Goldstein authored
    fanotify users do not always need to decode the file handles reported
    with FAN_REPORT_FID.
    
    Relax the restriction that filesystem needs to support NFS export and
    allow reporting file handles from filesystems that only support ecoding
    unique file handles.
    
    Even filesystems that do not have export_operations at all can fallback
    to use the default FILEID_INO32_GEN encoding, but we use the existence
    of export_operations as an indication that the encoded file handles will
    be sufficiently unique and that user will be able to compare them to
    filesystem objects using AT_HANDLE_FID flag to name_to_handle_at(2).
    
    For filesystems that do not support NFS export, users will have to use
    the AT_HANDLE_FID of name_to_handle_at(2) if they want to compare the
    object in path to the object fid reported in an event.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Message-Id: <20230502124817.3070545-5-amir73il@gmail.com>
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