On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:04 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Needs a Cc to linux-api and linux-man. > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 11:59:08AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > This allows xattr ops on symlink/special files referenced by an O_PATH > > descriptor without having to play games with /proc/self/fd/NN (which > > doesn't work for symlinks anyway). > > Do we even intent to support xattrs on say links? They never wire up > ->listxattr and would only get them through s_xattr. I'm defintively > worried that this could break things without a very careful audit. Why do you think listxattr is not wired up for symlinks? Xfs and ext4 definitely do have it, and it seems most others too: $ git grep -A10 "struct inode_operations.*symlink" | grep listxattr | wc -l 29 Thanks, Miklos
