linux-ext4 - [PATCH v3 01/16] fs: Add case sensitivity info to file

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Message-ID: <20260112174629.3729358-2-cel@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:46:14 -0500
From: Chuck Lever <cel@...nel.org>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 01/16] fs: Add case sensitivity info to file_kattr

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

Enable upper layers such as NFSD to retrieve case sensitivity
information from file systems by adding case_insensitive and
case_preserving boolean fields to struct file_kattr.

The default POSIX behavior (case-sensitive, case-preserving) is
initialized in vfs_fileattr_get(), allowing filesystems to override
these values only when they differ from the default.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
---
 fs/file_attr.c           | 10 ++++++++++
 include/linux/fileattr.h |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/file_attr.c b/fs/file_attr.c
index 13cdb31a3e94..a73de0e0ecac 100644
--- a/fs/file_attr.c
+++ b/fs/file_attr.c
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
 void fileattr_fill_xflags(struct file_kattr *fa, u32 xflags)
 {
 	memset(fa, 0, sizeof(*fa));
+	/* Default: POSIX semantics (case-sensitive, case-preserving) */
+	fa->case_insensitive = false;
+	fa->case_preserving = true;
 	fa->fsx_valid = true;
 	fa->fsx_xflags = xflags;
 	if (fa->fsx_xflags & FS_XFLAG_IMMUTABLE)
@@ -51,6 +54,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(fileattr_fill_xflags);
 void fileattr_fill_flags(struct file_kattr *fa, u32 flags)
 {
 	memset(fa, 0, sizeof(*fa));
+	/* Default: POSIX semantics (case-sensitive, case-preserving) */
+	fa->case_insensitive = false;
+	fa->case_preserving = true;
 	fa->flags_valid = true;
 	fa->flags = flags;
 	if (fa->flags & FS_SYNC_FL)
@@ -84,6 +90,10 @@ int vfs_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct file_kattr *fa)
 	struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
 	int error;
 
+	/* Default: POSIX semantics (case-sensitive, case-preserving) */
+	fa->case_insensitive = false;
+	fa->case_preserving = true;
+
 	if (!inode->i_op->fileattr_get)
 		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/fileattr.h b/include/linux/fileattr.h
index f89dcfad3f8f..cfd4d3973716 100644
--- a/include/linux/fileattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/fileattr.h
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ struct file_kattr {
 	/* selectors: */
 	bool	flags_valid:1;
 	bool	fsx_valid:1;
+	/* case sensitivity behavior: */
+	bool	case_insensitive:1;
+	bool	case_preserving:1;
 };
 
 int copy_fsxattr_to_user(const struct file_kattr *fa, struct fsxattr __user *ufa);
-- 
2.52.0