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Miklos Szeredi 46eae99ef7
add statmount(2) syscall
Add a way to query attributes of a single mount instead of having to parse
the complete /proc/$PID/mountinfo, which might be huge.

Lookup the mount the new 64bit mount ID.  If a mount needs to be queried
based on path, then statx(2) can be used to first query the mount ID
belonging to the path.

Design is based on a suggestion by Linus:

  "So I'd suggest something that is very much like "statfsat()", which gets
   a buffer and a length, and returns an extended "struct statfs" *AND*
   just a string description at the end."

The interface closely mimics that of statx.

Handle ASCII attributes by appending after the end of the structure (as per
above suggestion).  Pointers to strings are stored in u64 members to make
the structure the same regardless of pointer size.  Strings are nul
terminated.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh5YifP7hzKSbwJj94+DZ2czjrZsczy6GBimiogZws=rg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025140205.3586473-5-mszeredi@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>: various minor changes]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-12-11 19:11:02 +01:00
Documentation Probes fixes for v6.7-rc1: 2023-11-10 16:35:04 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
arch parisc architecture fixes for kernel v6.7-rc1 (part 2): 2023-11-12 11:05:31 -08:00
block blk-core: use pr_warn_ratelimited() in bio_check_ro() 2023-11-07 08:15:23 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
drivers wifi: iwlwifi: fix system commands group ordering 2023-11-12 11:34:19 -08:00
fs add statmount(2) syscall 2023-12-11 19:11:02 +01:00
include add statmount(2) syscall 2023-12-11 19:11:02 +01:00
init As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
io_uring io_uring: do not clamp read length for multishot read 2023-11-06 13:41:58 -07:00
ipc Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
kernel Probes fixes for v6.7-rc1: 2023-11-10 16:35:04 -08:00
lib lib: test_objpool: make global variables static 2023-11-10 19:59:04 +09:00
mm memblock: report failures when memblock_can_resize is not set 2023-11-08 09:40:13 -08:00
net Including fixes from netfilter and bpf. 2023-11-09 17:09:35 -08:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
samples Landlock updates for v6.7-rc1 2023-11-03 09:28:53 -10:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
security + Features 2023-11-03 09:48:17 -10:00
sound sound fixes for 6.7-rc1 2023-11-10 11:57:51 -08:00
tools LoongArch changes for v6.7 2023-11-12 10:58:08 -08:00
usr arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture 2023-09-11 08:13:17 +00:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS - removed AR7 platform support 2023-11-10 09:19:46 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.7-rc1 2023-11-12 16:19:07 -08:00
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