linux-ext4 - [PATCH 09/28] ext4: extended attribute value size limit is enforced by vfs

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Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 01:14:58 -0700
From:   Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...sity.com>,
        Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>,
        Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
        reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 09/28] ext4: extended attribute value size limit is enforced by vfs

EXT4_XATTR_MAX_LARGE_EA_SIZE definition in ext4 is currently unused.
Besides, vfs enforces its own 64k limit which makes the 1MB limit in
ext4 redundant. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4.h | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 5d5fc0d0e2bc..2cdd6070e348 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -2221,12 +2221,6 @@ struct mmpd_data {
 #define EXT4_MMP_MAX_CHECK_INTERVAL	300UL
 
 /*
- * Maximum size of xattr attributes for FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EA_INODE 1Mb
- * This limit is arbitrary, but is reasonable for the xattr API.
- */
-#define EXT4_XATTR_MAX_LARGE_EA_SIZE    (1024 * 1024)
-
-/*
  * Function prototypes
  */
 
-- 
2.13.0.219.gdb65acc882-goog