cifs: add SMB3 change notification support
A commonly used SMB3 feature is change notification, allowing an
app to be notified about changes to a directory. The SMB3
Notify request blocks until the server detects a change to that
directory or its contents that matches the completion flags
that were passed in and the "watch_tree" flag (which indicates
whether subdirectories under this directory should be also
included). See MS-SMB2 2.2.35 for additional detail.
To use this simply pass in the following structure to ioctl:
struct __attribute__((__packed__)) smb3_notify {
uint32_t completion_filter;
bool watch_tree;
} __packed;
using CIFS_IOC_NOTIFY 0x4005cf09
or equivalently _IOW(CIFS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 9, struct smb3_notify)
SMB3 change notification is supported by all major servers.
The ioctl will block until the server detects a change to that
directory or its subdirectories (if watch_tree is set).
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
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