This request_mask flag indicates that the caller is interested in the
result_mask. At the moment all ->getattr() callers discard the result mask
except sys_statx().
FUSE needs this, because it uses legacy inode initialization, that doesn't
return a result_mask, so needs a refresh when caller asks for it with
statx().
It might make sense later to promote this to a proper statx mask flag and
return it in stx_mask to userspace. This needs some more work to make sure
only filesystems set this flag where the result_mask is valid (e.g. NFS
wouldn't be able to set it, since it doesn't query the server about
supported fields).
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/stat.c | 1 +
include/linux/stat.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index b46583df70d4..0b71e5bdbc6b 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(statx,
if ((flags & AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE) == AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE)
return -EINVAL;
+ mask |= STATX_RESULT_MASK;
error = vfs_statx(dfd, filename, flags, &stat, mask);
if (error)
return error;
diff --git a/include/linux/stat.h b/include/linux/stat.h
index 765573dc17d6..65448b1163d3 100644
--- a/include/linux/stat.h
+++ b/include/linux/stat.h
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@
#define KSTAT_QUERY_FLAGS (AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE)
+/*
+ * This is an internal mask value, meaning: caller is interested in
+ * .result_mask, i.e. it's sys_statx().
+ */
+#define STATX_RESULT_MASK STATX__RESERVED
+
struct kstat {
u32 result_mask; /* What fields the user got */
umode_t mode;
--
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