[PATCH v6 5/6] fs: prepare for extending file_get/setattr()

Andrey Albershteyn
2025-06-30T16:20:40Z

From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

We intend to add support for more xflags to selective filesystems and
We cannot rely on copy_struct_from_user() to detect this extension.

In preparation of extending the API, do not allow setting xflags unknown
by this kernel version.

Also do not pass the read-only flags and read-only field fsx_nextents to
filesystem.

These changes should not affect existing chattr programs that use the
ioctl to get fsxattr before setting the new values.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250216164029.20673-4-pali@kernel.org/
Cc: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
---
fs/file_attr.c | 8 +++++++-
include/linux/fileattr.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/file_attr.c b/fs/file_attr.c
index 4e85fa00c092..62f08872d4ad 100644
--- a/fs/file_attr.c
+++ b/fs/file_attr.c
@@ -99,9 +99,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_fileattr_get);
int copy_fsxattr_to_user(const struct fileattr *fa, struct fsxattr __user *ufa)
{
struct fsxattr xfa;
+ __u32 mask = FS_XFLAGS_MASK;

memset(&xfa, 0, sizeof(xfa));
- xfa.fsx_xflags = fa->fsx_xflags;
+ xfa.fsx_xflags = fa->fsx_xflags & mask;
xfa.fsx_extsize = fa->fsx_extsize;
xfa.fsx_nextents = fa->fsx_nextents;
xfa.fsx_projid = fa->fsx_projid;
@@ -118,11 +119,16 @@ static int copy_fsxattr_from_user(struct fileattr *fa,
struct fsxattr __user *ufa)
{
struct fsxattr xfa;
+ __u32 mask = FS_XFLAGS_MASK;

if (copy_from_user(&xfa, ufa, sizeof(xfa)))
return -EFAULT;

+ if (xfa.fsx_xflags & ~mask)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
fileattr_fill_xflags(fa, xfa.fsx_xflags);
+ fa->fsx_xflags &= ~FS_XFLAG_RDONLY_MASK;
fa->fsx_extsize = xfa.fsx_extsize;
fa->fsx_nextents = xfa.fsx_nextents;
fa->fsx_projid = xfa.fsx_projid;
diff --git a/include/linux/fileattr.h b/include/linux/fileattr.h
index 6030d0bf7ad3..e2a2f4ae242d 100644
--- a/include/linux/fileattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/fileattr.h
@@ -14,6 +14,26 @@
FS_XFLAG_NODUMP | FS_XFLAG_NOATIME | FS_XFLAG_DAX | \
FS_XFLAG_PROJINHERIT)

+/* Read-only inode flags */
+#define FS_XFLAG_RDONLY_MASK \
+ (FS_XFLAG_PREALLOC | FS_XFLAG_HASATTR)
+
+/* Flags to indicate valid value of fsx_ fields */
+#define FS_XFLAG_VALUES_MASK \
+ (FS_XFLAG_EXTSIZE | FS_XFLAG_COWEXTSIZE)
+
+/* Flags for directories */
+#define FS_XFLAG_DIRONLY_MASK \
+ (FS_XFLAG_RTINHERIT | FS_XFLAG_NOSYMLINKS | FS_XFLAG_EXTSZINHERIT)
+
+/* Misc settable flags */
+#define FS_XFLAG_MISC_MASK \
+ (FS_XFLAG_REALTIME | FS_XFLAG_NODEFRAG | FS_XFLAG_FILESTREAM)
+
+#define FS_XFLAGS_MASK \
+ (FS_XFLAG_COMMON | FS_XFLAG_RDONLY_MASK | FS_XFLAG_VALUES_MASK | \
+ FS_XFLAG_DIRONLY_MASK | FS_XFLAG_MISC_MASK)
+
/*
* Merged interface for miscellaneous file attributes. 'flags' originates from
* ext* and 'fsx_flags' from xfs. There's some overlap between the two, which

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