From be7efb2d20d67f334a7de2aef77ae6c69367e646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Albershteyn Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:20:16 +0200 Subject: 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630-xattrat-syscall-v6-6-c4e3bc35227b@kernel.org Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- include/linux/syscalls.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h index e5603cc91963..77f45e5d4413 100644 --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct cachestat; struct statmount; struct mnt_id_req; struct xattr_args; +struct file_attr; #include #include @@ -371,6 +372,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_removexattrat(int dfd, const char __user *path, asmlinkage long sys_lremovexattr(const char __user *path, const char __user *name); asmlinkage long sys_fremovexattr(int fd, const char __user *name); +asmlinkage long sys_file_getattr(int dfd, const char __user *filename, + struct file_attr __user *attr, size_t usize, + unsigned int at_flags); +asmlinkage long sys_file_setattr(int dfd, const char __user *filename, + struct file_attr __user *attr, size_t usize, + unsigned int at_flags); asmlinkage long sys_getcwd(char __user *buf, unsigned long size); asmlinkage long sys_eventfd2(unsigned int count, int flags); asmlinkage long sys_epoll_create1(int flags); -- cgit v1.2.3