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2007-02-11[PATCH] cleanup include/linux/xattr.hAdrian Bunk
- reduce the userspace visible part - fix the in-kernel compilation Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-10-09[PATCH] Introduce vfs_listxattrBill Nottingham
This patch moves code out of fs/xattr.c:listxattr into a new function - vfs_listxattr. The code for vfs_listxattr was originally submitted by Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> to Unionfs. Sorry about that. The reason for this submission is to make the listxattr code in fs/xattr.c a little cleaner (as well as to clean up some code in Unionfs.) Currently, Unionfs has vfs_listxattr defined in its code. I think that's very ugly, and I'd like to see it (re)moved. The logical place to put it, is along side of all the other vfs_*xattr functions. Overall, I think this patch is benefitial for both kernel.org kernel and Unionfs. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] move xattr permission checks into the VFSakpm@osdl.org
) From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> The xattr code has rather complex permission checks because the rules are very different for different attribute namespaces. This patch moves as much as we can into the generic code. Currently all the major disk based filesystems duplicate these checks, while many minor filesystems or network filesystems lack some or all of them. To do this we need defines for the extended attribute names in common code, I moved them up from JFS which had the nicest defintions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] add vfs_* helpers for xattr operationsChristoph Hellwig
Add vfs_getxattr, vfs_setxattr and vfs_removexattr helpers for common checks around invocation of the xattr methods. NFSD already was missing some of the checks and there will be more soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> (James, I haven't touched selinux yet because it's doing various odd things and I'm not sure how it would interact with the security attribute fallbacks you added. Could you investigate whether it could use vfs_getxattr or if not add a __vfs_getxattr helper to share the bits it is fine with?) For NFSv4: instead of just converting it add an nfsd_getxattr helper for the code shared by NFSv2/3 and NFSv4 ACLs. In fact that code isn't even NFS-specific, but I'll wait for more users to pop up first before moving it to common code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2004-10-18[PATCH] xattr consolidation v3 - generic xattr APIJames Morris
This patch consolidates common xattr handling logic into the core fs code, with modifications suggested by Christoph Hellwig (hang off superblock, remove locking, use generic code as methods), for use by ext2, ext3 and devpts, as well as upcoming tmpfs xattr code. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2004-01-20[PATCH] Move XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX macro to common locationAndrew Morton
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Move the XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX macro to the xattr.h header so that it's in a common location. (Acked by Stephen Smalley)
2003-02-25[XFS] Remove flags argument from xattr inode operations againChristoph Hellwig
SGI Modid: 2.5.x-xfs:slinx:140255a
2003-02-14[PATCH] xattr: allow kernel code to override EA permissionsAndrew Morton
Patch from Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> This adds the XATTR_KERNEL_CONTEXT extended attributes flag. Kernel code may use this flag to override extended attribute permission restrictions that would otherwise be imposed on the calling process.
2003-01-14[XFS] update xattr.h copyright dateChristoph Hellwig
2002-02-05v2.5.2.6 -> v2.5.3Linus Torvalds
- Doug Ledford: i810 audio driver update - Evgeniy Polyakov: update various SCSI drivers to new locking - David Howells: syscall latency improvement, try 2 - Francois Romieu: dscc4 driver update - Patrick Mochel: driver model fixes - Andrew Morton: clean up a few details in ext3 inode initialization - Pete Wyckoff: make x86 machine check print out right address.. - Hans Reiser: reiserfs update - Richard Gooch: devfs update - Greg KH: USB updates - Dave Jones: PNPBIOS - Nathan Scott: extended attributes - Corey Minyard: clean up zlib duplication (triplication..)