linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/16] fs: add inode operations to get/set/remove fscaps

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Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxiz+ng5qEY4qkE_q8Gv3jrd6b7mZnppkDoJthhD+Ud4Ow@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:32:19 +0200
From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To:     "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@...nel.org>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, audit@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] fs: add inode operations to get/set/remove fscaps

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 11:51 PM Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)
<sforshee@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Add inode operations for getting, setting and removing filesystem
> capabilities rather than passing around raw xattr data. This provides
> better type safety for ids contained within xattrs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@...nel.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/fs.h | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 98b7a7a8c42e..a0a77f67b999 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -2002,6 +2002,11 @@ struct inode_operations {
>                                      int);
>         int (*set_acl)(struct mnt_idmap *, struct dentry *,
>                        struct posix_acl *, int);
> +       int (*get_fscaps)(struct mnt_idmap *, struct dentry *,
> +                         struct vfs_caps *);
> +       int (*set_fscaps)(struct mnt_idmap *, struct dentry *,
> +                         const struct vfs_caps *, int flags);
> +       int (*remove_fscaps)(struct mnt_idmap *, struct dentry *);
>         int (*fileattr_set)(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
>                             struct dentry *dentry, struct fileattr *fa);
>         int (*fileattr_get)(struct dentry *dentry, struct fileattr *fa);
>

Please document in Documentation/filesystems/{vfs,locking}.rst

Thanks,
Amir.