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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xattr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xattr.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c index 95bb6b30ab13..fcf67d80d7f9 100644 --- a/fs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/xattr.c @@ -458,6 +458,28 @@ nolsm: } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_getxattr); +/** + * vfs_listxattr - retrieve \0 separated list of xattr names + * @dentry: the dentry from whose inode the xattr names are retrieved + * @list: buffer to store xattr names into + * @size: size of the buffer + * + * This function returns the names of all xattrs associated with the + * inode of @dentry. + * + * Note, for legacy reasons the vfs_listxattr() function lists POSIX + * ACLs as well. Since POSIX ACLs are decoupled from IOP_XATTR the + * vfs_listxattr() function doesn't check for this flag since a + * filesystem could implement POSIX ACLs without implementing any other + * xattrs. + * + * However, since all codepaths that remove IOP_XATTR also assign of + * inode operations that either don't implement or implement a stub + * ->listxattr() operation. + * + * Return: On success, the size of the buffer that was used. On error a + * negative error code. + */ ssize_t vfs_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *list, size_t size) { @@ -467,7 +489,8 @@ vfs_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *list, size_t size) error = security_inode_listxattr(dentry); if (error) return error; - if (inode->i_op->listxattr && (inode->i_opflags & IOP_XATTR)) { + + if (inode->i_op->listxattr) { error = inode->i_op->listxattr(dentry, list, size); } else { error = security_inode_listsecurity(inode, list, size); |