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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] [RFC 09/11] vfs: Add igetxattr inode operation
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:48:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150821064846.GA32060@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1440094798-1411-10-git-send-email-agruenba@redhat.com>

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 08:19:56PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Add an igetxattr inode operation that behaves as getxattr but operates on
> inodes instead of dentries.  File systems that support this operation can
> implement igetxattr for reading xattrs in contexts where a dentry is not
> available, such as within SELinux inode security checks.

And this is even worse - we should not have two operations doing the
same thing.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-21  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-20 18:19 [Cluster-devel] [RFC 00/11] Inode security label invalidation Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 01/11] ubifs: Remove unused "security.*" xattr handler Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 02/11] hfsplus: Remove unused xattr handler list operations Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 03/11] 9p: Simplify the xattr handlers Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 04/11] xattr handlers: Pass handler to operations instead of flags Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 05/11] xattr handlers: Some simplifications Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 06/11] lib: Move strcmp_prefix into string.c Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 07/11] 9p: Stop using the generic xattr_handler infrastructure Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-21  6:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-21  8:35     ` Steven Whitehouse
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 08/11] xattr: Pass inodes to xattr handlers instead of dentries Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 09/11] vfs: Add igetxattr inode operation Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-21  6:48   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 10/11] selinux: Allow to invalidate an inode's security label Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-20 18:19 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 11/11] gfs2: Invalide security labels of inodes that go invalid Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-21  6:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-21  9:25     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2015-08-24 17:42 ` [Cluster-devel] [RFC 00/11] Inode security label invalidation Stephen Smalley
2015-08-24 19:13   ` Andreas Grünbacher
2015-08-24 20:47   ` Eric Paris

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