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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 09/11] vfs: Add igetxattr inode operation
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:48:46 -0700
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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.