Add two tiny helpers to determine whether a given dentry supports
listing the requested xattr or posix acl. We will use this helper in
various filesystems in later commits.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h | 5 +++++
include/linux/xattr.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h b/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h
index 54cd7a14330d..905d532ccd6e 100644
--- a/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/posix_acl_xattr.h
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ static inline int posix_acl_type(const char *name)
return -1;
}
+static inline bool posix_acl_dentry_list(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ return IS_POSIXACL(d_backing_inode(dentry));
+}
+
extern const struct xattr_handler posix_acl_access_xattr_handler;
extern const struct xattr_handler posix_acl_default_xattr_handler;
diff --git a/include/linux/xattr.h b/include/linux/xattr.h
index 2e7dd44926e4..d1150b7ba8d0 100644
--- a/include/linux/xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ struct xattr_handler {
size_t size, int flags);
};
+static inline bool xattr_dentry_list(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
+ struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ return handler && (!handler->list || handler->list(dentry));
+}
+
const char *xattr_full_name(const struct xattr_handler *, const char *);
struct xattr {
--
2.34.1
