aha/include/linux/xattr.h
akpm@osdl.org e0ad7b073e [PATCH] move xattr permission checks into the VFS
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

The xattr code has rather complex permission checks because the rules are very
different for different attribute namespaces.  This patch moves as much as we
can into the generic code.  Currently all the major disk based filesystems
duplicate these checks, while many minor filesystems or network filesystems
lack some or all of them.

To do this we need defines for the extended attribute names in common code, I
moved them up from JFS which had the nicest defintions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:29 -08:00

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/*
File: linux/xattr.h
Extended attributes handling.
Copyright (C) 2001 by Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@computer.org>
Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright (c) 2004 Red Hat, Inc., James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
*/
#ifndef _LINUX_XATTR_H
#define _LINUX_XATTR_H
#define XATTR_CREATE 0x1 /* set value, fail if attr already exists */
#define XATTR_REPLACE 0x2 /* set value, fail if attr does not exist */
/* Namespaces */
#define XATTR_OS2_PREFIX "os2."
#define XATTR_OS2_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_OS2_PREFIX) - 1)
#define XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX "security."
#define XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX) - 1)
#define XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX "system."
#define XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX) - 1)
#define XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX "trusted."
#define XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX) - 1)
#define XATTR_USER_PREFIX "user."
#define XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_USER_PREFIX) - 1)
struct xattr_handler {
char *prefix;
size_t (*list)(struct inode *inode, char *list, size_t list_size,
const char *name, size_t name_len);
int (*get)(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer,
size_t size);
int (*set)(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *buffer,
size_t size, int flags);
};
ssize_t vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *, char *, void *, size_t);
int vfs_setxattr(struct dentry *, char *, void *, size_t, int);
int vfs_removexattr(struct dentry *, char *);
ssize_t generic_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size);
ssize_t generic_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, size_t buffer_size);
int generic_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags);
int generic_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name);
#endif /* _LINUX_XATTR_H */