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| author | Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@redhat.com> | 2025-06-30 19:20:16 +0300 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2025-07-02 18:05:17 +0300 |
| commit | be7efb2d20d67f334a7de2aef77ae6c69367e646 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b85c9c53b57d7c4bd965e27733548f035d1700c /include/uapi | |
| parent | 276e136bff7edcdecc6e206c81594ef06aa40743 (diff) | |
| download | linux-be7efb2d20d67f334a7de2aef77ae6c69367e646.tar.xz | |
fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls
Introduce file_getattr() and file_setattr() syscalls to manipulate inode
extended attributes. The syscalls takes pair of file descriptor and
pathname. Then it operates on inode opened accroding to openat()
semantics. The struct file_attr is passed to obtain/change extended
attributes.
This is an alternative to FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl with a difference
that file don't need to be open as we can reference it with a path
instead of fd. By having this we can manipulated inode extended
attributes not only on regular files but also on special ones. This
is not possible with FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl as with special files
we can not call ioctl() directly on the filesystem inode using fd.
This patch adds two new syscalls which allows userspace to get/set
extended inode attributes on special files by using parent directory
and a path - *at() like syscall.
CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630-xattrat-syscall-v6-6-c4e3bc35227b@kernel.org
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 18 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h index 2892a45023af..04e0077fb4c9 100644 --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h @@ -852,8 +852,14 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_removexattrat, sys_removexattrat) #define __NR_open_tree_attr 467 __SYSCALL(__NR_open_tree_attr, sys_open_tree_attr) +/* fs/inode.c */ +#define __NR_file_getattr 468 +__SYSCALL(__NR_file_getattr, sys_file_getattr) +#define __NR_file_setattr 469 +__SYSCALL(__NR_file_setattr, sys_file_setattr) + #undef __NR_syscalls -#define __NR_syscalls 468 +#define __NR_syscalls 470 /* * 32 bit systems traditionally used different diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h index 0098b0ce8ccb..9663dbdda181 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h @@ -149,6 +149,24 @@ struct fsxattr { }; /* + * Variable size structure for file_[sg]et_attr(). + * + * Note. This is alternative to the structure 'struct fileattr'/'struct fsxattr'. + * As this structure is passed to/from userspace with its size, this can + * be versioned based on the size. + */ +struct file_attr { + __u64 fa_xflags; /* xflags field value (get/set) */ + __u32 fa_extsize; /* extsize field value (get/set)*/ + __u32 fa_nextents; /* nextents field value (get) */ + __u32 fa_projid; /* project identifier (get/set) */ + __u32 fa_cowextsize; /* CoW extsize field value (get/set) */ +}; + +#define FILE_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 24 +#define FILE_ATTR_SIZE_LATEST FILE_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 + +/* * Flags for the fsx_xflags field */ #define FS_XFLAG_REALTIME 0x00000001 /* data in realtime volume */ |