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* [PATCH RFC 0/7] pidfs: support extended attributes
@ 2025-06-17 15:45 Christian Brauner
  2025-06-17 15:45 ` [PATCH RFC 1/7] libfs: prepare to allow for non-immutable pidfd inodes Christian Brauner
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From: Christian Brauner @ 2025-06-17 15:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-fsdevel
  Cc: Jann Horn, Josef Bacik, Jeff Layton, Daan De Meyer,
	Lennart Poettering, Mike Yuan, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek,
	Christian Brauner, Alexander Mikhalitsyn

With the incoming support for permanent pidfs dentries we can start
supporting extended attributes on pidfds. This will allow to attach meta
information to tasks. This currently adds support for trusted extended
attributes which is a first natural target.

One natural extension would be to introduce a custom pidfs.* extended
attribute space and allow for the inheritance of extended attributes
across fork() and exec().

The first simple scheme will allow privileged userspace to slap tags
onto pidfds which is useful for e.g., service managers such as systemd.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Christian Brauner (7):
      libfs: prepare to allow for non-immutable pidfd inodes
      pidfs: make inodes mutable
      pidfs: raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC
      pidfs: support xattrs on pidfds
      selftests/pidfd: test extended attribute support
      selftests/pidfd: test extended attribute support
      selftests/pidfd: test setattr support

 fs/libfs.c                                         |   1 -
 fs/pidfs.c                                         |  98 ++++++++++++++-
 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/.gitignore           |   2 +
 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/Makefile             |   3 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_setattr_test.c |  69 +++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_xattr_test.c   | 132 +++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 301 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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base-commit: ac79f1c5b96d8d2f39b3eed1084588160198f6d3
change-id: 20250617-work-pidfs-xattr-1111246fe9b2


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2025-06-18 19:44   ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2025-06-17 15:45 ` [PATCH RFC 2/7] pidfs: make inodes mutable Christian Brauner
2025-06-18 19:43   ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2025-06-17 15:45 ` [PATCH RFC 3/7] pidfs: raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC Christian Brauner
2025-06-18 19:46   ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2025-06-17 15:45 ` [PATCH RFC 4/7] pidfs: support xattrs on pidfds Christian Brauner
2025-06-18 19:54   ` Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2025-06-17 15:45 ` [PATCH RFC 5/7] selftests/pidfd: test extended attribute support Christian Brauner
2025-06-17 15:45 ` [PATCH RFC 6/7] " Christian Brauner
2025-06-17 15:45 ` [PATCH RFC 7/7] selftests/pidfd: test setattr support Christian Brauner

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