From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 20:42:46 +1100 (AEDT) From: James Morris To: Andreas Gruenbacher cc: Alexander Viro , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] vfs: Distinguish between full xattr names and proper prefixes In-Reply-To: <1448919823-27103-5-git-send-email-agruenba@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1448919823-27103-1-git-send-email-agruenba@redhat.com> <1448919823-27103-5-git-send-email-agruenba@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Add an additional "name" field to struct xattr_handler. When the name > is set, the handler matches attributes with exactly that name. When the > prefix is set instead, the handler matches attributes with the given > prefix and with a non-empty suffix. > > This patch should avoid bugs like the one fixed in commit c361016a in > the future. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher Is it worth making an inline wrapper for 'handler->prefix ?: handler->name' ? Reviewed-by: James Morris -- James Morris