If a mount is released then its mnt_id can immediately be reused. This is bad news for user interfaces that want to uniquely identify a mount. Implementing a unique mount ID is trivial (use a 64bit counter). Unfortunately userspace assumes 32bit size and would overflow after the counter reaches 2^32. Introduce a new 64bit ID alongside the old one. Initialize the counter to 2^32, this guarantees that the old and new IDs are never mixed up.
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| @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ struct statx { · 153 unmodified lines | ||
| 154 | 154 | #define STATX_BTIME 0x00000800U /* Want/got stx_btime */ |
| 155 | 155 | #define STATX_MNT_ID 0x00001000U /* Got stx_mnt_id */ |
| 156 | 156 | #define STATX_DIOALIGN 0x00002000U /* Want/got direct I/O alignment info */ |
| 157 | +#define STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE 0x00004000U /* Want/got extended stx_mount_id */ | |
| 157 | 158 | |
| 158 | 159 | #define STATX__RESERVED 0x80000000U /* Reserved for future struct statx expansion */ |
| 159 | 160 | |