linux-kernelorg-stable/include
Andrey Albershteyn be7efb2d20
fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls
Introduce file_getattr() and file_setattr() syscalls to manipulate inode
extended attributes. The syscalls takes pair of file descriptor and
pathname. Then it operates on inode opened accroding to openat()
semantics. The struct file_attr is passed to obtain/change extended
attributes.

This is an alternative to FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl with a difference
that file don't need to be open as we can reference it with a path
instead of fd. By having this we can manipulated inode extended
attributes not only on regular files but also on special ones. This
is not possible with FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl as with special files
we can not call ioctl() directly on the filesystem inode using fd.

This patch adds two new syscalls which allows userspace to get/set
extended inode attributes on special files by using parent directory
and a path - *at() like syscall.

CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630-xattrat-syscall-v6-6-c4e3bc35227b@kernel.org
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-02 17:05:17 +02:00
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