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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.20.1512012041390.15599@namei.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 20:42:46 +1100 (AEDT)
From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] vfs: Distinguish between full xattr names and
proper prefixes
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Add an additional "name" field to struct xattr_handler. When the name
> is set, the handler matches attributes with exactly that name. When the
> prefix is set instead, the handler matches attributes with the given
> prefix and with a non-empty suffix.
>
> This patch should avoid bugs like the one fixed in commit c361016a in
> the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Is it worth making an inline wrapper for 'handler->prefix ?:
handler->name' ?
Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>
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