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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2026-01-15 13:23:40 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2026-01-16 10:51:12 +0100
commit6cbfdf89470ef3c2110f376a507d135e7a7a7378 (patch)
tree6991f78aff4f603c9b186e0e4a4fe031d5828861 /include/linux
parent88ec797c468097a8ce97694ed11ea9c982598ec0 (diff)
posix_acl: make posix_acl_to_xattr() alloc the buffer
Without exception all caller do that. So move the allocation into the helper. This reduces boilerplate and removes unnecessary error checking. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260115122341.556026-1-mszeredi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h b/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h
index e86f3b731da2..9e1892525eac 100644
--- a/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ posix_acl_from_xattr(struct user_namespace *user_ns, const void *value,
}
#endif
-int posix_acl_to_xattr(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
- const struct posix_acl *acl, void *buffer, size_t size);
+extern void *posix_acl_to_xattr(struct user_namespace *user_ns, const struct posix_acl *acl,
+ size_t *sizep, gfp_t gfp);
+
static inline const char *posix_acl_xattr_name(int type)
{
switch (type) {