This patchset is the initial posting of an implementation of extended attribute support for the Linux NFSv3 code, and intended as an RFC. This code is based initially on the GPL'd NFSv3 xattr code from IRIX (thanks, Casey!), as well as the existing Linux NFSv3 ACL code. It is implemented as a side-protocol and should not affect any existing protocol operation. These patches are against the devel branch of the linux-nfs tree. Currently, the code is implemented only to support Linux namespace.name xattrs in the "user" namespace. It could be extended to support other similar name/value pair xattr implementations (and not far from IRIX wire compat), although that's not an aim of this version. There may also be some scope for limited support of system xattrs (e.g. 'dumb' security label transport), although I've not looked beyond user.* so far. Three operations are implemented by the new XATTR protocol and map to syscalls: - GETXATTR getxattr(2) - LISTXTTR listxattr(2) - SETXATTR setxattr(2) and removexattr(2) This code passes basic testing of the above syscalls, although there are some areas which still need work: - Dynamic allocation of RPC buffers/pages (currently, the max size of e.g. the getxattr(2) value buffer is allocated at the RPC layer for each call -- suggestions on the best approach for this welcome) - Determine appropriate NFS error codes for each operation - Formal documentation of the XATTR protocol - Interoperability with other OSs (we probably should at least discuss with BSD folk) - Handle size probing for getxattr(2) and listxattr(2) in the client (currently faked). I think we should handle this at the client and not support it over the wire, as probes are almost always followed immediately by full calls, and the protocol can be kept simpler by expecting the client to perform a full call over the wire in response to a userland probe and caching the result. - Caching of xattrs at the client Please review and comment! Note that I'll be giving a talk on this at LinuxCon on Thursday: http://linuxcon.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/1589 So, in addition to discussion here, please come along to the talk if you're at the conf, and we may also be able to discuss it at Plumbers in one of the BoFs. Full diffstat: fs/nfs/Kconfig | 36 ++++ fs/nfs/Makefile | 2 fs/nfs/client.c | 51 ++++++ fs/nfs/dir.c | 8 - fs/nfs/file.c | 8 - fs/nfs/internal.h | 19 ++ fs/nfs/nfs3acl.c | 155 +++++++++++-------- fs/nfs/nfs3xattr.c | 264 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/nfs/nfs3xattr_user.c | 52 ++++++ fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c | 187 +++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/nfs/super.c | 3 fs/nfsd/Kconfig | 8 + fs/nfsd/Makefile | 1 fs/nfsd/nfs3xattr.c | 352 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 3 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c | 60 +++++++ fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 5 include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 16 -- include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h | 3 include/linux/nfs_mount.h | 3 include/linux/nfs_xattr.h | 21 ++ include/linux/nfs_xdr.h | 45 +++++ include/linux/nfsd/nfsd.h | 13 + include/linux/nfsd/xdr3.h | 46 +++++ include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h | 2 25 files changed, 1265 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-) - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
