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| author | Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@redhat.com> | 2025-06-30 18:20:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2025-07-02 17:05:17 +0200 |
| commit | be7efb2d20d67f334a7de2aef77ae6c69367e646 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b85c9c53b57d7c4bd965e27733548f035d1700c /arch/x86/entry/syscalls | |
| parent | 276e136bff7edcdecc6e206c81594ef06aa40743 (diff) | |
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 'arch/x86/entry/syscalls')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl index ac007ea00979..4877e16da69a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl @@ -473,3 +473,5 @@ 465 i386 listxattrat sys_listxattrat 466 i386 removexattrat sys_removexattrat 467 i386 open_tree_attr sys_open_tree_attr +468 i386 file_getattr sys_file_getattr +469 i386 file_setattr sys_file_setattr diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl index cfb5ca41e30d..92cf0fe2291e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl @@ -391,6 +391,8 @@ 465 common listxattrat sys_listxattrat 466 common removexattrat sys_removexattrat 467 common open_tree_attr sys_open_tree_attr +468 common file_getattr sys_file_getattr +469 common file_setattr sys_file_setattr # # Due to a historical design error, certain syscalls are numbered differently |