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

From: Amir Goldstein
Date: Thu Nov 30 2023 - 00:32:45 EST


On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 11:51 PM Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)
<sforshee@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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.