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From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
To: Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>
Cc: io-uring <[email protected]>,
	linux-fsdevel <[email protected]>,
	Kernel Team <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] fs: split off do_getxattr from getxattr
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:22:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whChmLy02-degmLFC9sgwpdgmF=XoAjeF1bTdHcEc8bdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:50 AM Stefan Roesch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This splits off do_getxattr function from the getxattr
> function. This will allow io_uring to call it from its
> io worker.

Hmm.

My reaction to this one is

 "Why isn't do_getxattr() using 'struct xattr_ctx' for its context?"

As far as I can tell, that's *exactly* what it wants, and it would be
logical to match up with the setxattr side.

Yeah, yeah, setxattr has a 'const void __user *value' while getxattr
obviously has just a 'void __user *value'. But if the cost of having a
unified interface is that you lose the 'const' part for the setxattr,
I think that's still a good thing.

Yes? No? Comments?

              Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-21 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-21 16:49 [PATCH v5 0/5] io_uring: add xattr support Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] fs: split off do_user_path_at_empty from user_path_at_empty() Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] fs: split off setxattr_setup function from setxattr Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] fs: split off do_getxattr from getxattr Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 17:22   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-12-21 19:15     ` Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 19:18       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-21 21:59         ` Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 22:57           ` Jens Axboe
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] io_uring: add fsetxattr and setxattr support Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:49 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] io_uring: add fgetxattr and getxattr support Stefan Roesch

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