Re: [PATCH 1/6] xattr consolidation v2 - generic xattr API
From: James Morris
Date: Sat Sep 18 2004 - 18:52:28 EST
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> This currently is only relevant for the security attribute. Selinux always
> returns the same attribute name so it can't trigger this problem, but other
> LSMs might do something different.
>
> We can add a list_size parameter to xattr_handler->list to get this fixed. We
> should change the name_len parameter of xattr_handler->list from int to
> size_t:
Ahh, I thought we had the inode semaphore (never trust documentation).
Why don't we take that instead in listxattr() ? The name_len thing seems
kludgy.
> I also noticed that your additions to fs/xattr.c use a slightly different
> coding style than the rest of the file. You might want to change that as
> well.
I was using Linus-recommended coding style, but it can be changed I guess.
- James
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