[PATCH] fanotify: report full event length for FIONREAD
From: Yichong Chen
Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 22:19:43 EST
fanotify_ioctl(FIONREAD) reports the number of bytes available to read
from the event queue. It currently accounts only FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN
for each queued event.
That underestimates events that carry additional information records, such
as FAN_REPORT_DFID_NAME events. A userspace program that uses FIONREAD to
size its read buffer can receive a length that is smaller than the next
event. Reading with that buffer then fails with -EINVAL, while a larger
buffer succeeds and reports a larger metadata.event_len.
Use fanotify_event_len() when summing queued events so FIONREAD includes
all info records.
Fixes: 5e469c830fdb ("fanotify: copy event fid info to user")
Signed-off-by: Yichong Chen <chenyichong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 9ee373ff5840..33693886b7d8 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -1150,11 +1150,13 @@ static long fanotify_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ar
{
struct fsnotify_group *group;
struct fsnotify_event *fsn_event;
+ unsigned int info_mode;
void __user *p;
int ret = -ENOTTY;
size_t send_len = 0;
group = file->private_data;
+ info_mode = FAN_GROUP_FLAG(group, FANOTIFY_INFO_MODES);
p = (void __user *) arg;
@@ -1162,7 +1164,8 @@ static long fanotify_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ar
case FIONREAD:
spin_lock(&group->notification_lock);
list_for_each_entry(fsn_event, &group->notification_list, list)
- send_len += FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN;
+ send_len += fanotify_event_len(info_mode,
+ FANOTIFY_E(fsn_event));
spin_unlock(&group->notification_lock);
ret = put_user(send_len, (int __user *) p);
break;
--
2.51.0