https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510416
--- Comment #1 from mcer...@redhat.com --- https://lwn.net/Articles/1027795/ fs/file_attr.c commit be7efb2d20d67f334a7de2aef77ae6c69367e646 Author: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbe...@redhat.com> Date: Mon Jun 30 18:20:16 2025 +0200 fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls Introduce file_getattr() and file_setattr() syscalls to manipulate inode extended attributes. The syscalls takes pair of file descriptor and pathname. Then it operates on inode opened accroding to openat() semantics. The struct file_attr is passed to obtain/change extended attributes. This is an alternative to FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl with a difference that file don't need to be open as we can reference it with a path instead of fd. By having this we can manipulated inode extended attributes not only on regular files but also on special ones. This is not possible with FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl as with special files we can not call ioctl() directly on the filesystem inode using fd. This patch adds two new syscalls which allows userspace to get/set extended inode attributes on special files by using parent directory and a path - *at() like syscall. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
