fsnotify: add group priorities

This introduces an ordering to fsnotify groups.  With purely asynchronous
notification based "things" implementing fsnotify (inotify, dnotify) ordering
isn't particularly important.  But if people want to use fsnotify for the
basis of sycronous notification or blocking notification ordering becomes
important.

eg. A Hierarchical Storage Management listener would need to get its event
before an AV scanner could get its event (since the HSM would need to
bring the data in for the AV scanner to scan.)  Typically asynchronous notification
would want to run after the AV scanner made any relevant access decisions
so as to not send notification about an event that was denied.

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

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/group.c b/fs/notify/group.c
index 9e9eb406afdd..ada913fd4f7f 100644
--- a/fs/notify/group.c
+++ b/fs/notify/group.c
@@ -89,10 +89,27 @@ void fsnotify_recalc_group_mask(struct fsnotify_group *group)
 
 void fsnotify_add_vfsmount_group(struct fsnotify_group *group)
 {
+	struct fsnotify_group *group_iter;
+	unsigned int priority = group->priority;
+
 	mutex_lock(&fsnotify_grp_mutex);
 
-	if (!group->on_vfsmount_group_list)
+	if (!group->on_vfsmount_group_list) {
+		list_for_each_entry(group_iter, &fsnotify_vfsmount_groups,
+				    vfsmount_group_list) {
+			/* insert in front of this one? */
+			if (priority < group_iter->priority) {
+				/* list_add_tail() insert in front of group_iter */
+				list_add_tail_rcu(&group->inode_group_list,
+						  &group_iter->inode_group_list);
+				goto out;
+			}
+		}
+
+		/* apparently we need to be the last entry */
 		list_add_tail_rcu(&group->vfsmount_group_list, &fsnotify_vfsmount_groups);
+	}
+out:
 	group->on_vfsmount_group_list = 1;
 
 	mutex_unlock(&fsnotify_grp_mutex);
@@ -100,10 +117,27 @@ void fsnotify_add_vfsmount_group(struct fsnotify_group *group)
 
 void fsnotify_add_inode_group(struct fsnotify_group *group)
 {
+	struct fsnotify_group *group_iter;
+	unsigned int priority = group->priority;
+
 	mutex_lock(&fsnotify_grp_mutex);
 
-	if (!group->on_inode_group_list)
+	/* add to global group list, priority 0 first, UINT_MAX last */
+	if (!group->on_inode_group_list) {
+		list_for_each_entry(group_iter, &fsnotify_inode_groups,
+				    inode_group_list) {
+			if (priority < group_iter->priority) {
+				/* list_add_tail() insert in front of group_iter */
+				list_add_tail_rcu(&group->inode_group_list,
+						  &group_iter->inode_group_list);
+				goto out;
+			}
+		}
+
+		/* apparently we need to be the last entry */
 		list_add_tail_rcu(&group->inode_group_list, &fsnotify_inode_groups);
+	}
+out:
 	group->on_inode_group_list = 1;
 
 	mutex_unlock(&fsnotify_grp_mutex);
@@ -226,6 +260,8 @@ struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_alloc_group(const struct fsnotify_ops *ops)
 	spin_lock_init(&group->mark_lock);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&group->marks_list);
 
+	group->priority = UINT_MAX;
+
 	group->ops = ops;
 
 	return group;