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Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxgbeMEqx7FtBc3KnrCjOHHRniSjBPLzk7_S9SjYKcY_ag@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 08:05:45 +0200
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@...hat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>, 
	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...r.kernel.org, 
	Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOSUPP

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Future patches will add new syscalls which use these functions. As
> this interface won't be used for ioctls only, the EOPNOSUPP is more
> appropriate return code.
>
> This patch converts return code from ENOIOCTLCMD to EOPNOSUPP for
> vfs_fileattr_get and vfs_fileattr_set. To save old behavior translate
> EOPNOSUPP back for current users - overlayfs, encryptfs and fs/ioctl.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@...nel.org>
> ---
>  fs/ecryptfs/inode.c  |  8 +++++++-
>  fs/file_attr.c       | 12 ++++++++++--
>  fs/overlayfs/inode.c |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> index 493d7f194956..a55c1375127f 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> @@ -1126,7 +1126,13 @@ static int ecryptfs_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
>
>  static int ecryptfs_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct fileattr *fa)
>  {
> -       return vfs_fileattr_get(ecryptfs_dentry_to_lower(dentry), fa);
> +       int rc;
> +
> +       rc = vfs_fileattr_get(ecryptfs_dentry_to_lower(dentry), fa);
> +       if (rc == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> +               rc = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> +
> +       return rc;
>  }
>

I think the semantics should be
"This patch converts return code of vfs_fileattr_[gs]et and ->fileattr_[gs]et()
from ENOIOCTLCMD to EOPNOSUPP"

ENOIOCTLCMD belongs only in the ioctl frontend, so above conversion
is not needed.

>  static int ecryptfs_fileattr_set(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
> diff --git a/fs/file_attr.c b/fs/file_attr.c
> index be62d97cc444..4e85fa00c092 100644
> --- a/fs/file_attr.c
> +++ b/fs/file_attr.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int vfs_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct fileattr *fa)
>         int error;
>
>         if (!inode->i_op->fileattr_get)
> -               return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> +               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
>         error = security_inode_file_getattr(dentry, fa);
>         if (error)
> @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ int vfs_fileattr_set(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
>         int err;
>
>         if (!inode->i_op->fileattr_set)
> -               return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> +               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
>         if (!inode_owner_or_capable(idmap, inode))
>                 return -EPERM;
> @@ -271,6 +271,8 @@ int ioctl_getflags(struct file *file, unsigned int __user *argp)
>         int err;
>
>         err = vfs_fileattr_get(file->f_path.dentry, &fa);
> +       if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> +               err = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
>         if (!err)
>                 err = put_user(fa.flags, argp);
>         return err;
> @@ -292,6 +294,8 @@ int ioctl_setflags(struct file *file, unsigned int __user *argp)
>                         fileattr_fill_flags(&fa, flags);
>                         err = vfs_fileattr_set(idmap, dentry, &fa);
>                         mnt_drop_write_file(file);
> +                       if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> +                               err = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
>                 }
>         }
>         return err;
> @@ -304,6 +308,8 @@ int ioctl_fsgetxattr(struct file *file, void __user *argp)
>         int err;
>
>         err = vfs_fileattr_get(file->f_path.dentry, &fa);
> +       if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> +               err = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
>         if (!err)
>                 err = copy_fsxattr_to_user(&fa, argp);
>
> @@ -324,6 +330,8 @@ int ioctl_fssetxattr(struct file *file, void __user *argp)
>                 if (!err) {
>                         err = vfs_fileattr_set(idmap, dentry, &fa);
>                         mnt_drop_write_file(file);
> +                       if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> +                               err = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
>                 }
>         }
>         return err;
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
> index 6f0e15f86c21..096d44712bb1 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
> @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ int ovl_real_fileattr_get(const struct path *realpath, struct fileattr *fa)
>                 return err;
>
>         err = vfs_fileattr_get(realpath->dentry, fa);
> -       if (err == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
> +       if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
>                 err = -ENOTTY;
>         return err;
>  }

That's the wrong way, because it hides the desired -EOPNOTSUPP
return code from ovl_fileattr_get().

The conversion to -ENOTTY was done for
5b0a414d06c3 ("ovl: fix filattr copy-up failure"),
so please do this instead:

--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ int ovl_real_fileattr_get(const struct path
*realpath, struct fileattr *fa)

        err = vfs_fileattr_get(realpath->dentry, fa);
        if (err == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
-               err = -ENOTTY;
+               err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
        return err;
 }

--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_fileattr(struct inode *inode,
const struct path *old,
        err = ovl_real_fileattr_get(old, &oldfa);
        if (err) {
                /* Ntfs-3g returns -EINVAL for "no fileattr support" */
-               if (err == -ENOTTY || err == -EINVAL)
+               if (err == -ENOTTY || err == -EINVAL || err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
                        return 0;
                pr_warn("failed to retrieve lower fileattr (%pd2, err=%i)\n",
                        old->dentry, err);


Thanks,
Amir.

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