linux-ext4 - [PATCH v3 05/16] hfs: Implement fileattr

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Message-ID: <20260112174629.3729358-6-cel@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:46:18 -0500
From: Chuck Lever <cel@...nel.org>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 05/16] hfs: Implement fileattr_get for case sensitivity

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>

Report HFS case sensitivity behavior via the file_kattr boolean
fields. HFS is always case-insensitive (using Mac OS Roman case
folding) and always preserves case at rest.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
---
 fs/hfs/dir.c    |  1 +
 fs/hfs/hfs_fs.h |  2 ++
 fs/hfs/inode.c  | 13 +++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/hfs/dir.c b/fs/hfs/dir.c
index 86a6b317b474..552156896105 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/dir.c
@@ -321,4 +321,5 @@ const struct inode_operations hfs_dir_inode_operations = {
 	.rmdir		= hfs_remove,
 	.rename		= hfs_rename,
 	.setattr	= hfs_inode_setattr,
+	.fileattr_get	= hfs_fileattr_get,
 };
diff --git a/fs/hfs/hfs_fs.h b/fs/hfs/hfs_fs.h
index e94dbc04a1e4..a25cdda8ab34 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/hfs_fs.h
+++ b/fs/hfs/hfs_fs.h
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ extern int hfs_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t block,
 extern const struct address_space_operations hfs_aops;
 extern const struct address_space_operations hfs_btree_aops;
 
+struct file_kattr;
+int hfs_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct file_kattr *fa);
 int hfs_write_begin(const struct kiocb *iocb, struct address_space *mapping,
 		    loff_t pos, unsigned int len, struct folio **foliop,
 		    void **fsdata);
diff --git a/fs/hfs/inode.c b/fs/hfs/inode.c
index 524db1389737..06429decc1d8 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/inode.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/xattr.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/fileattr.h>
 
 #include "hfs_fs.h"
 #include "btree.h"
@@ -698,6 +699,17 @@ static int hfs_file_fsync(struct file *filp, loff_t start, loff_t end,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+int hfs_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct file_kattr *fa)
+{
+	/*
+	 * HFS is always case-insensitive (using Mac OS Roman case
+	 * folding) and always preserves case at rest.
+	 */
+	fa->case_insensitive = true;
+	fa->case_preserving = true;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static const struct file_operations hfs_file_operations = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
 	.read_iter	= generic_file_read_iter,
@@ -714,4 +726,5 @@ static const struct inode_operations hfs_file_inode_operations = {
 	.lookup		= hfs_file_lookup,
 	.setattr	= hfs_inode_setattr,
 	.listxattr	= generic_listxattr,
+	.fileattr_get	= hfs_fileattr_get,
 };
-- 
2.52.0